diff --git a/ci/run-gradle.sh b/ci/run-gradle.sh
index 6edc70d37f..3c219760cb 100755
--- a/ci/run-gradle.sh
+++ b/ci/run-gradle.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,21 @@ echo $PACKAGE_PATH
 
 set -e -x -o pipefail
 
-readarray -t PROJECTS < <(find . -name gradlew.bat -printf '%h\n')
+# We were using process substitution before for find/readarray, which started failing.
+# Possibly related to https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2291, although
+# we could not correlate with the software running on the hosted agents.
+PROJECTS_FILE=$(mktemp proj-XXXXXX)
+on_exit() {
+  local exit_code=$?
+  rm -f "$PROJECTS_FILE"
+  printf "Exiting with exit code %s\n" $exit_code
+  exit $exit_code
+}
+trap on_exit EXIT
+
+find . -name gradlew.bat -printf '%h\n' > "$PROJECTS_FILE"
+
+readarray -t PROJECTS < "$PROJECTS_FILE"
 
 for dir in "${PROJECTS[@]}"; do
   echo $dir
diff --git a/samples/python/console/speech_synthesis_sample.py b/samples/python/console/speech_synthesis_sample.py
index 832a8cb689..417bc0f80e 100644
--- a/samples/python/console/speech_synthesis_sample.py
+++ b/samples/python/console/speech_synthesis_sample.py
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 
 # Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
 # Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md file in the project root for full license information.
+"""
+Speech synthesis samples for the Microsoft Cognitive Services Speech SDK
+"""
 
 try:
     import azure.cognitiveservices.speech as speechsdk