HPR1649: Raspberry Pi Accessibility Breakthrough

Summary: 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: http://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