eSpeak: speech synthesis

I found this link about this problem in Ubunutu.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1145967&page=3
It recommends this and it appears to work correctly.

espeak
Espeak is behaving oddly, hanging or cutting off some words. (Launchpad).

Workaround: pipe its output to aplay:
Code:

espeak "hello" --stdout | aplay

Also this comment:
Re: Known Jaunty Jackalope bugs with workarounds
ATI driver with new Ubuntu 9.04 will give a delay when maximizing or minimizing
windows. That's due to a patch that was removed from Xorg for the sake of intel
cards. Go figure...make ubuntu less compatible with 40% of the cards in the
market (ATI) in order to make it compatible with 10% of the cards? Anyways,
here's the steps to fix it.

Code:

1. Open synaptic
2. Menu: Settings -> Repositories
3. Click the tab: Third Party Software
4. Click the button "Add" then enter "deb
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/xserver-no-backfill/ubuntu jaunty main",
then click ok
5. Click the button "Add" again then enter "deb-src
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/xserver-no-backfill/ubuntu jaunty main",
then click ok
6. Click "Close"
7. Click "Reload"
8. Click "Mark All Upgrades"
9. Click "Apply"
10. Logout and log back in.