Dear Maintainer,
       I was running pysiogame for the first time and saw the
following on the console :-

$ pysiogame
Failed to connect with espeak

I then tried to see if espeak is given therein either in depends or
suggests but is in neither.

$ aptitude show pysiogame
Package: pysiogame
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.30.811-1
Priority: optional
Section: games
Maintainer: Miriam Ruiz <miriam@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 4,717 k
Depends: python, python-pygame, fonts-freefont-ttf
Description: educational activity pack for kids
 pySioGame is a set of educational activities and games for children
aged between 3 and 10. The activities are grid based and
 can be played all in a single window. pySioGame includes maths,
reading, writing, painting, and memory activities.
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pysiogame/

So either disable espeak or put it up either on depends or suggests so
people don't get bitten.

Hi!

Thanks for reporting this.
The message is actually printed by pysiogame after 'disabling' espeak. I
guess I should have worded it a little bit differently so it doesn't sound
as harsh, or not display it at all. I assumed everyone gets espeak
installed by default and the message was used as a debugging tool to detect
any problems with launching a subprocess.

In fact I have just realised there's one more related problem. If we are to
leave it as it is without forcing espeak installation on users then the
option to enable/disable espeak in preferences should be hidden when the
game detects there's no espeak installed (rather than letting users enable
it just to get it re-disabled). But since in some activities the game
actually do depend on espeak it might be useful to add the espeak to
dependencies.

Regards,
Ireneusz Imiolek