can't get espeak working with speech dispatcher and speechd-up

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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Hi all.

I recently decided to sit down, and to get espeak working with speech
dispatcher and speechd-up, since I've been reading so many great
messages about it. This is on a system that has run festival and flite
with speech dispatcher and speechd-up without any problems up to
now. I am using the following:

Debian GNU/Linux testing
speech-dispatcher 0.6.1-2
speechd-up 0.3-1
espeak 1.11a

I'm going to leave out the kernel and speakup versions, since I don't
think they're relevant in this situation.

My speech-dispatcher.log reads:

[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 198574] speechd:  Speech Dispatcher
Logging to file
/var/log/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.log
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 248193] speechd:  Initializing output
module espeak-generic with binary
/usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules//sd_generic and configuration
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules//espeak-generic.conf
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 248473] speechd:  Output module is logging
to file /var/log/speech-dispatcher/espeak.log
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 254047] speechd:  Module espeak-generic
loaded.
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 453706] speechd:  Module espeak-generic
started sucessfully with message:
- ---------------
Everything ok so far.
- ---------------

[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 482436] speechd:   Reading configuration
for pattern emacs:*
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 485440] speechd:   Reading configuration
for pattern *:gnomespeech:*
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 486079] speechd:  Configuration has been
read from "/etc/speech-dispatcher//speechd.conf"
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 486669] speechd:   Speech Dispatcher
started with 1
output module
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 487092] speechd:   Openning socket
connection
[Mon Aug 21 18:16:10 2006 : 492660] speechd: Speech Dispatcher waiting
for clients ...

My espeak.log file is empty.

Speechd-up.log reads:

[Mon Aug 21 18:12:59 2006] speechd: Speechd-speakup starts!
[Mon Aug 21 18:12:59 2006] speechd:   ERROR: [?: this command is not
supported]
[Mon Aug 21 18:12:59 2006] speechd:   ERROR: [y: this command is not
supported]
[Mon Aug 21 18:12:59 2006] speechd:   [volume setting not supported
yet]
[Mon Aug 21 18:12:59 2006] speechd:   [tone setting not supported]
[Mon Aug 21 18:12:59 2006] speechd: ERROR: Invalid punctuation mode!
[Mon Aug 21 18:12:59 2006] speechd:   WARNING: [frequency setting not
supported,use rate instead]

My espeak-generic.conf is as shipped with speech-dispatcher under
debian, except for modifications to the following section:

GenericRateAdd          180
GenericPitchAdd         50
GenericVolumeAdd        100

# (These values are multiplied by 100, because DotConf currently
# doesn't support floats. So you can write 0.85 as 85 and so on.)

GenericRateMultiply     90
GenericPitchMultiply    50
GenericVolumeMultiply   100
 

These are values that Steve Holmes said work for him in a previous
post to this list. The only reason I made these changes is because
from what I understand, espeak-generic.conf was written to work with
espeak 1.10, and from previous posts to this list, I gathered that
changes in espeak 1.11 made the values used in espeak-generic.conf
incompatible.

If my understanding is incorrect, and my changes to these values is in
fact what is causing the problem, then I would appreciate it if someone
would please tell me what the original values were, so I can change
them back.

Typing:

speak "this is a test"

on the command-line does work, and speaks the typed message. Also, I
have aplay installed on this system as well, and it works just fine
for playing all other applay-supported sound files, including wav.

In case it's not obvious, the problem I'm experiencing here is no
speech.

If there is some other info I should provide, please let me know what info is needed. Thanks in advance for any help.

Greg


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