Código e logs mudaram muito (devido a uma grande reescrita) desde que a pergunta foi feita.

Quando meu código (fornecido abaixo) é executado no Windows (meu laptop e o AppVeyor CI), ele faz o que deveria fazer. Mas no Linux (VM no TravisCI), isso gera um erro de permissão negada.

Erro:

$ sudo python3 test.py
Testing espeak4py
Testing wait4prev
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 10, in <module>
    mySpeaker.say('Hello, World!')
  File "/home/travis/build/sayak-brm/espeak4py/espeak4py/__init__.py", line 35, in say
    self.prevproc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, executable=self.executable, cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 745, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 1361, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
The command "sudo python3 test.py" exited with 1.

Código:

espeak4py /iniciar.py:

#! python3
import subprocess
import os
import platform

class Speaker:
    def __init__(self, voice="en", wpm=120, pitch=80):
        self.prevproc = None
        self.voice = voice
        self.wpm = wpm
        self.pitch = pitch
        if platform.system() == 'Windows': self.executable = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + "/espeak.exe"
        else: self.executable = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + "/espeak"

    def generateCmd(self, phrase):
        cmd = [
            self.executable,
            "--path=.",
            "-v", self.voice,
            "-p", self.pitch,
            "-s", self.wpm,
            phrase
        ]
        cmd = [str(x) for x in cmd]
        return cmd

    def say(self, phrase, wait4prev=False):
        cmd=self.generateCmd(phrase)
        if wait4prev:
            try: self.prevproc.wait()
            except AttributeError: pass
        else:
            try: self.prevproc.terminate()
            except AttributeError: pass
        self.prevproc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, executable=self.executable, cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

test.py:

#! python3
import espeak4py
import time

print('Testing espeak4py\n')
print('Testing wait4prev')

mySpeaker = espeak4py.Speaker()

mySpeaker.say('Hello, World!')
time.sleep(1)
mySpeaker.say('Interrupted!')
time.sleep(3)

mySpeaker.say('Hello, World!')
time.sleep(1)
mySpeaker.say('Not Interrupted.', wait4prev=True)
time.sleep(5)

print('Testing pitch')

myHighPitchedSpeaker = espeak4py.Speaker(pitch=120)
myHighPitchedSpeaker.say('I am a demo of the say function')
time.sleep(5)

print('Testing wpm')

myFastSpeaker = espeak4py.Speaker(wpm=140)
myFastSpeaker.say('I am a demo of the say function')
time.sleep(5)

print('Testing voice')

mySpanishSpeaker = espeak4py.Speaker(voice='es')
mySpanishSpeaker.say('Hola. Como estas?')

print('Testing Completed.')

Não entendo por que funciona apenas em uma plataforma e não na outra.

Travis CI Logs:https://travis-ci.org/sayak-brm/espeak4py

Logs do AppVeyor:https://ci.appveyor.com/project/sayak-brm/espeak4py

GitHub:https://sayak-brm.github.io/espeak4py

Eu tenho as saídas dels -l como @zvone recomendado:

$ ls -l
total 48
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis   500 Sep 29 20:14 appveyor.yml
drwxrwxr-x 3 travis travis  4096 Sep 29 20:14 espeak4py
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis 32400 Sep 29 20:14 LICENSE.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis  2298 Sep 29 20:14 README.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis     0 Sep 29 20:14 requirements.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis   759 Sep 29 20:14 test.py

$ ls -l espeak4py
total 592
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis 276306 Sep 29 20:14 espeak
drwxrwxr-x 5 travis travis   4096 Sep 29 20:14 espeak-data
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis 319488 Sep 29 20:14 espeak.exe
-rw-rw-r-- 1 travis travis   1125 Sep 29 20:14 __init__.py