Emacspeak and mbrola_server

Emacspeak and mbrola_server

[www.wep.net/~mlang]

Hi

I just have a question to all emacspeakers here:

What does the message

Process speaker not running

mean in detail.

I today installed mbrola_server and got the tcl to act right.
It says text exactly as I want it to be said.
But after 

DTK_PROGRAM=/usr/src/emacspeak-8.0/mbrola 
export DTK_PROGRAM

and the launching of the emacspeak.sh script,
emacs executes many things and at least it shows

Process speaker not running

Regards,
        Mario <mlang@netway.at>

   http://wep.net/~mlang

Re: Emacspeak and mbrola_server

[John Covici]

I had this same problem and discovered it was a mis spelling in the
program name -- so what it means is just that -- for some reason the
process isn't running, but unfortunately there is no way to figure out
why from the message.

on Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:30:37 +0200 (CEST) "www.wep.net/~mlang" <mlang@netway.at> in
<Pine.LNX.3.96.980715022628.255A-100000@sky.lucy.diamond> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I just have a question to all emacspeakers here:
>
>What does the message
>
>Process speaker not running
>
>mean in detail.
>
>I today installed mbrola_server and got the tcl to act right.
>It says text exactly as I want it to be said.
>But after
>
>DTK_PROGRAM=/usr/src/emacspeak-8.0/mbrola
>export DTK_PROGRAM
>
>and the launching of the emacspeak.sh script,
>emacs executes many things and at least it shows
>
>Process speaker not running
>
>Regards,
>        Mario <mlang@netway.at>
>
>   http://wep.net/~mlang
>
>
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Emacspeak message "Process speaker not running"

[James R. Van Zandt]

Mario -

If Emacspeak gives you the message "process speaker not running", you
need some trace data to diagnose the real problem.  Try running it
under "strace", as described below.

                           - Jim Van Zandt

Run emacspeak like this:

   strace -o log -ff -t -s 80 emacspeak README

This uses strace to log system calls, which include all the data read
or written by the server.  There is one log file for each process
created.  The first file, for the process executing the emacspeak
script, is named "log".  The other files have names which include the
process number, like log.1180.  To see what process each log comes
from, look for the execve system call near the beginning of the log
file.  The interesting file is the one for the tcl process that
executes the server script, which should include a line like this:

	log.1181:21:08:31 execve("/usr/bin/tcl", ["/usr/bin/tcl", "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/dtk-pgm"...], [/* 26 vars */]) = 0

Then, check the "write" commands in the last 30 or so lines in the
file.  Tcl probably wrote an error message describing the problem.

I have had the system lock up while recording system calls in this
way.  This happened when I went into info mode with C-h I and tried to
access one of the info files.  However, the same commands worked fine
when I was not recording system calls.  I have not experienced lockups
with the latest version of the server.

Re: Emacspeak and mbrola_server

[James R. Van Zandt]

Mario -

Please try installing the emacspeak speech server in
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak, then setting DTK_PROGRAM to just
the name of the server (no path).

                                    - Jim Van Zandt