speechd_up not working

speechd_up not working

[ameer armaly]

Hi all.
I'm trying to get software speech going after a  while of not using it,
but I'm having some problems.
When I load the sftsyn module( which loads fine), and run speechd_up
absolutely nothing happens.
The logs say it started, I can hit backspace and here the pc speaker beep,
but it doesn't show any errors on the screen or in the logs.
Advice would be appriciated.



Ameer

Re: speechd_up not working

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
	You did start speech-dispatcher, right? Also, check and make sure 
you still have a /dev/softsynth device with major 10 and minor 26. Try 
using spd-say to see if the problem is in speech-dispatcher or speechd-up. 
What synth are you trying to use? 

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, ameer armaly wrote:

aa> Hi all.
aa> I'm trying to get software speech going after a  while of not using it,
aa> but I'm having some problems.
aa> When I load the sftsyn module( which loads fine), and run speechd_up
aa> absolutely nothing happens.
aa> The logs say it started, I can hit backspace and here the pc speaker beep,
aa> but it doesn't show any errors on the screen or in the logs.
aa> Advice would be appriciated.

Re: speechd_up not working

[ameer armaly]

Well, the problem seems to be in speech dispatcher.
When I type
spd-say hi
nothing happens, but the program hangs.
I've got /dev/softsynth, with major 10 and minor 26; that seems to work.


On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi
> 	You did start speech-dispatcher, right? Also, check and make sure
> you still have a /dev/softsynth device with major 10 and minor 26. Try
> using spd-say to see if the problem is in speech-dispatcher or speechd-up.
> What synth are you trying to use?
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, ameer armaly wrote:
>
> aa> Hi all.
> aa> I'm trying to get software speech going after a  while of not using it,
> aa> but I'm having some problems.
> aa> When I load the sftsyn module( which loads fine), and run speechd_up
> aa> absolutely nothing happens.
> aa> The logs say it started, I can hit backspace and here the pc speaker beep,
> aa> but it doesn't show any errors on the screen or in the logs.
> aa> Advice would be appriciated.
>
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Re: speechd_up not working

[Hynek Hanke]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0400, ameer armaly wrote:
> Well, the problem seems to be in speech dispatcher.
> When I type
> spd-say hi
> nothing happens, but the program hangs.

What version are you using? What does Speech Dispatcher's log say?
Which synthesizer are you using?

With Regards,
Hynek Hanke

Re: speechd_up not working

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
	What synthesizer are you trying to use? Is it installed properly, 
i.e. does it work outside of speech dispatcher?
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, ameer armaly wrote:

aa> Well, the problem seems to be in speech dispatcher.
aa> When I type
aa> spd-say hi
aa> nothing happens, but the program hangs.
aa> I've got /dev/softsynth, with major 10 and minor 26; that seems to work.

Re: speechd_up not working

[Ameer Armaly]

I'm using flite, and it seems to work  fine stand alone; I can here
everything it's saying.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude@adelphia.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: speechd_up not working


> Hi
> What synthesizer are you trying to use? Is it installed properly,
> i.e. does it work outside of speech dispatcher?
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, ameer armaly wrote:
>
> aa> Well, the problem seems to be in speech dispatcher.
> aa> When I type
> aa> spd-say hi
> aa> nothing happens, but the program hangs.
> aa> I've got /dev/softsynth, with major 10 and minor 26; that seems to
work.
>
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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: speechd_up not working

[Jan Buchal]

>>>>> "AA" == Ameer Armaly <ameer@charter.net> writes:

    AA> I'm using flite, and it seems to work fine stand alone; I can
    AA> here everything it's saying.

I think you use last cvs snapshot and it have some bugs in festival
module. In next days come bug fix.



Best regards

-- 
Jan Buchal

Re: speechd_up not working

[Hynek Hanke]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:12:23PM +0200, Jan Buchal wrote:
>     AA> I'm using flite, and it seems to work fine stand alone; I can
>     AA> here everything it's saying.
> I think you use last cvs snapshot and it have some bugs in festival
> module. In next days come bug fix.

I don't think this is the problem. I don't know about any bug in the
latest CVS version, although there might be some (we had a buggy
version, but I didn't commit it to CVS :)

Please let me know which version of Speech Dispatcher do you use.
0.4.1 is the latest.

Please try running first
	spd-say -o flite "hello"
to be sure it's the flite output module who doesn't speak.

If this is confirmed, please send me Speech Dispatcher's
log file (see etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf) to see where it
is.

Also, setting the debug mode
	Debug 1
	DebugFile "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/debug-flite"
in flite.conf (see etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/flite.conf) and
sending me the resulting logfile would be helpful.

With Regards,
Hynek