HPR1649: Raspberry Pi Accessibility Breakthrough

Since April last year the text-to-speech using eSpeak in the Raspberry Pi console has stuttered very badly and regularly crashes the kernel.

Here's how I fixed it.

Cloning my github repo:

git clone https://github.com/cromarty/ttsprojects.git

Installation:

cd ttsprojects/raspberry-pi/libilctts/build
sudo ./build.sh
cd ../../piespeakup
sudo ./build.sh

Bingo! Speech should work.

This has only just been released and there is still work to do on the documentation.

Note: I am not connected to the Raspberry Pi Foundation in any way and anything I say or do is not endorsed by them.

My email address is connected with a Freelists email list I set up and an accompanying web site:

https://www.raspberryvi.org/

The 'VI' is for 'Visually Impaired' and I DID check with the Foundation about the similarity of the web address before I created it.

To join our email list send an email to:

raspberry-vi-request@freelists.org

With 'subscribe' in the subject.

Mike

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