New comment by joey-commits on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27193#issuecomment-748411709

Comment:
I would be ok with keeping espeak but I would be very interested to learn the use case. Since espeak is not maintained any more, I would much   rather keep espeak around until we can fix all issues and then migrate. I certainly wouldn't want to break someones workflow.
I know that speech dispatcher has been less latent with espeak-ng for a long time. I also applied patches to pcaudilib to ensure that espeak-ng would be less latent with espeakup. The patches that I applied fix two problems with espeakup which are latency and overlapping audio. I tested espeakup for a while today to ensure that it was reliable since I actually have friends who use it even though I am mostly an Orca user.