Almost decent working standard packaged emacspeak/eflite on Debian 7.2

[Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi list.  I've been running emacspeak happily since about the year
2000,. starting out on ViaVoice outloud and then eflite.

Eflite has become less reliable over time and I presume might not even
be well supported lately, if at all.

Anyway, recently upgraded to a fresh Debian on Toshiba laptop and was
pleased that all the standard packaged emacspeak goodies did work
straight out of the box.

There is a problem however that is a nuisance but one that I've seen
previously and just always tolerated.  I felt like asking  the
brain-trust here  though in case there's an easy fix.

Basically, the eflite driver or flite synth itself just plain chokes
frequently and requires a restart.

I do not encounter the problem in top-down reading of larger chunks of
text but it happens frequently when arrowing around.

Literally, it's like Mr. Eflite choked on a big piece of steak and his
wind pipe closed entirely.  It happens sometimes on text input as well
and in fact I had to restart once while writing this.

Relevant versions shown below.

Anyone else who's ran across this and found a reliable fix or
workaround, please advise.

Emacspeak 29.0

GNU Emacs 23.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-09-08 on trouble, modified by Debian

$ cat /etc/debian_version
7.2

$ eflite --version
Eflite 0.4.1

$ flite --version
  Carnegie Mellon University, Copyright (c) 1999-2009, all rights reserved
  version: flite-1.4-release December 2009 (http://cmuflite.org)


Thank you

-- 
Jerry Sievers
e: gsievers19@xxxxxxxxxxx
p: 312.241.7800

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