Re: spd-say seems confused.

[Steve Holmes <steve@holmesgrown.com>]

Well after thinking about it and messing with things a bit, I see now
that the speechd.sh file in /etc/profile.d gets its execute flag
turned off when the speechd daemon is stopped by running
'/etc/rc.d/speechd stop'. So it should not be setting that environment
variable in the future as long as you don't startup speech-dispatcher
with the rc.d script.  Look in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf at
the bottom line; it should say something like DisableAutoSpawn; Just
stick a # sign in front of that and then save the file.  This will
probably get copied down to your $HOME directory if it hasn't already.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:40:06PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I have to think about this a moment.  If you are going to use
> autospawn and run as individual user, then you should not start
> speechd up as a system service. The autospawn deal will start it for
> you and then it should not pull in the environment variable
> declaration or care about it.  I need to check that part out and see
> if going back to user mode would cause a conflict with that
> environment variable.  That will give me something to play with after
> I get pulse going here.  So far, I have pulse going for playing media
> files from the console.  I'm a bit chicken to restart ALSA just yet
> because I don't wanna lose speakup with espeak.  Since ALSA is
> configured now to use pulse, I might get away with not changing or
> recompiling espeak yet.  If it weren't for the threat of losing speech
> and thus access to my system, I would be a bit more brave here.  At
> least I can ssh into this box from my laptop if I break speech, I
> guess.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:14:44PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
> > When I set speechd as a system-wide service, it put an export 
> > SPEECHD_ADDRESS = /var/run/... 
> > in a file under /etc/profile.d.  When I went back to running speechd as 
> > a user, this line was not removed.  Commenting it out seems to have 
> > solved the problem.
> > 
> > Chris 
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 
> > 01:28:37PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > Assuming you want to continue using speech-dispatcher as a system wide
> > > service, be sure you have started speech-dispatcher.  Add /speechd to
> > > your DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf or at least run thd daemon by hand
> > > by typing,
> > > /etc/rc.d/speechd start
> > > to get it going for now.  Then see how things go.  If you would rather
> > > use it as a user based deal, then edit
> > > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and uncomment the AutoSpawn line
> > > at the bottom of the file.  In that situation, you would not need to
> > > have the speechd daemon running at all.
> > > 
> > > Note, this is for Arch Linux users.
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:49:42PM +0100, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > > > On 23.2.2011 01:18, Christopher Moore wrote:
> > > > >It seems that spd-say thinks that speechd is a system-wide service
> > > > > rather than a local service.
> > > > 
> > > > Right.
> > > > 
> > > > >application configuration or the value of the SPEECHD_ADDRESS environment variable.
> > > > 
> > > > It says where it is taking the information from. Since spd-say has
> > > > no application configuration, then you must have set the SPEECHD_ADDRESS
> > > > variable.
> > > > 
> > > > Try:
> > > >   env SPEECHD_ADDRESS
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Hynek Hanke
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