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diff --git a/accessibility/espeak/README b/accessibility/espeak/README index bbb9cb381b..19f50b44bc 100644 --- a/accessibility/espeak/README +++ b/accessibility/espeak/README @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English -and other languages. +eSpeak (a compact open source software speech synthesizer) eSpeak produces good quality English speech. It uses a different synthesis method from other open source text to speech (TTS) engines, and sounds @@ -9,3 +8,12 @@ can run as a command line program to speak text from a file or from stdin. To build without portaudio support, set WAVONLY=yes in the script's environment. + +If you get errors like this: + +bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111) + +...either ignore them (if espeak produces audio anyway), or comment out +the 'pcm.headset' and 'ctl.headset' stanzas in /etc/asound.conf. This +should only happen if your Slackware system was upgraded from an older +version. |