[Espeak-general] Sluggishness of espeak

[Sebastian H. <shu...@gm...>]

Hi all

I'm using espeak-ng 1.49.0 through the brltty module. Brltty in Debian testing
was just compiled against espeak-ng, instead of espeak. I'm now experiencing
issues with the responsiveness of espeak, e.g. when I quickly navigate down two
lines, where the first line is empty and the second contains text, it would
still say "space" before it would read the rest. If the skipped line is not
empty, it's even more annoying, because it reads the first word of the skipped
line.

There has been a thread on the list in late September, where a similar issue was
reported with hitting an interrupt key. Since navigating quickly over a line
involves an interrupt as well, I believe that's a similar issue.
Is there anything I could do to help locate and fix this issue?

As a remark, the output of the synthesis sounds really monotone since the switch
to espeak-ng. I know that this is a rather subjective thing and also hard to
describe, but I liked the speech rhythm of the old espeak more. Is that
something I could maybe revert through selecting a different voice variant?

Thanks
Sebastian
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