From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GTi4I-0006HV-00 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:52:03 -0400 Received: (qmail 8891 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Sep 2006 09:51:31 -0700 Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:51:31 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: help with espeak? Message-ID: <20060930165131.GA8855@localhost.localdomain> References: <7.0.1.0.0.20060930103344.02622b10@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20060930103344.02622b10@gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:52:03 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Check the permissions and owner/group on espeak-data, and the files that are in there. I found that under Debian at least, the permissions and owner/group that the espeak distribution has set by default were what was causing espeak not to speak for me. I found that setting the espeak-data directory permissions to 755, and the permissions of the files under espeak-data to 644 was what worked for me. I also have both the directory and the files in it set to owner root, and group root. Finally, the permissions on the speak binary are also set to 755, and the owner/group are root as well. This is on a stand-alone system, which only I use, and which isn't hooked up to my network frequently, which is separate from the outside world anyway, so the above setup doesn't bother me in terms of any possible security wholes in the slightest. Also, make sure that speak is in the path. If you're using it via speech-dispatcher, instead of just having speak in espeak-generic.conf, you want to supply the full path, (I.E. /usr/local/bin/speak in my case). If espeak still doesn't work, especially by itself without speech-dispatcher, then given that you had problems you said with another speech engine failing to speak, I'd get your soundcard/speaker issue resolved first, before moving forward, since that would seem to be the main problem here in that case. Greg On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:34:49AM -0600, TheCreator wrote: > Hello list, > I'm trying to run espeak. I moved the data dir to /usr/share, and > when I run it, I don't get any errors, but its not giving me any sound. > Any ideas? > Thanks, > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFHqCT7s9z/XlyUyARAsoPAJ4mOuAz/po1ZyicWu2Wzbk6dl6LmACeNCMZ 5YaNeU2MFObFmFdnekbRlcY= =st4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----