espeak fails to generate sound

I have installed espeak on 10.3, tried both the standard version and the
one in factory.
They fail with lots of errors (also as root), like this:

espeak 'dont speak'
Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in
'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 776
Expression 'ValidateParameters( outputParameters, hostApi,
StreamDirection_Out )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c',
line: 969
Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in
'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 776
Expression 'ValidateParameters( outputParameters, hostApi,
StreamDirection_Out )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c',
line: 969
Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in
'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 776
Expression 'ValidateParameters( outputParameters, hostApi,
StreamDirection_Out )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c',
line: 969
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)

I can get it to create wav files with -w.

Currentyl I have installed
eSpeak text-to-speech: 1.31.11  13.Feb.08

ldd espeak:
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
(0x00002b8970cce000)
libespeak.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libespeak.so.1
(0x00002b8970fd6000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b897123b000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002b897148f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b897169d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002b8970ab1000)
libportaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libportaudio.so.2
(0x00002b89719e2000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b8971c0e000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libasound.so.2
(0x00002b8971e29000)
libjack.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libjack.so.0 (0x00002b89720fc000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00002b8972319000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b8972522000)

I did add some repositories with the non-OSS DVD players etc, perhaps
these caused the problems?


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