Package: gstreamer1.0-espeak Version: 0.4.0-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Leading up to situation; install of Debian Sid and gstreamer1.0-espeak package. Ineffective was; shell command: gst-launch-1.0 espeak text="hello world" ! autoaudiosink as it did not speak, and continued to loop without termination, with very frequent GStreamer errors. Ineffective was; using espeak instead of espeak-ng, because gstreamer1.0-espeak depends on libespeak-ng1 only. Effective was; adding a voice property to the espeak element: gst-launch-1.0 espeak text="hello world" voice="english" ! autoaudiosink Outcome was; errors and loop when voice property not given. Expected was; spoken words. Possibly related; "espeak -v default hello" works, but "espeak-ng -v default hello" says "Error; The specified espeak-ng voice does not exist." Both espeak and espeak-ng have no "default" in list of voices shown with --voices argument. Perhaps might be fixed by changing ESPEAK_DEFAULT_VOICE to "english" in gst-plugins-espeak, so that the package will work with espeak-ng which does not have "default". -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gstreamer1.0-espeak depends on: ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libespeak-ng1 1.49.1+dfsg-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.54.1-1 ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.12.3-1 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.12.3-1 gstreamer1.0-espeak recommends no packages. gstreamer1.0-espeak suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/