speechd-up not working on text console

speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

I am trying to set up speechd-up but I can't get it to emit any sound
when running from text console. It works when running from GUI
(kde plasma). To test I am running: speechd-up --probe.

When compiling speechd-up with `make all`, I got texi errors. So I just
did `make speechd-up`. Here's my setup: festival + speechd + speechd-up
+ speakup_soft. I am running it on arch linux.

Any help will be great. If there's some other mailing list such queries
should be posted to, then please suggest.

Thanks,
Okash

Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[John Covici]

I am not sure it will work with festival, I did get it to work with
espeak -- it may need an actual driver rather than the generic
modules.
It was a while ago, but I did not get any errors during the make,
maybe I have some of those text tools.

On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:32:31 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to set up speechd-up but I can't get it to emit any sound
> when running from text console. It works when running from GUI
> (kde plasma). To test I am running: speechd-up --probe.
> 
> When compiling speechd-up with `make all`, I got texi errors. So I just
> did `make speechd-up`. Here's my setup: festival + speechd + speechd-up
> + speakup_soft. I am running it on arch linux.
> 
> Any help will be great. If there's some other mailing list such queries
> should be posted to, then please suggest.
> 
> Thanks,
> Okash
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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi John,

Thanks. I'll run it with espeak.

The source I am using is https://github.com/williamh/speechd-up which
shows last update in Jan 2011. I might have to downgrade the text
tools to version compatible with speechd-up. I would prefer to bypass
texi stuff and still get relevant modules compiled, if possible.
Here's the error:

./fdl.texi:404: raising the section level of @appendixsubsec which is too low

Thanks,
Okash


On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 6:25 PM, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> I am not sure it will work with festival, I did get it to work with
> espeak -- it may need an actual driver rather than the generic
> modules.
> It was a while ago, but I did not get any errors during the make,
> maybe I have some of those text tools.
>
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:32:31 -0400,
> Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to set up speechd-up but I can't get it to emit any sound
>> when running from text console. It works when running from GUI
>> (kde plasma). To test I am running: speechd-up --probe.
>>
>> When compiling speechd-up with `make all`, I got texi errors. So I just
>> did `make speechd-up`. Here's my setup: festival + speechd + speechd-up
>> + speakup_soft. I am running it on arch linux.
>>
>> Any help will be great. If there's some other mailing list such queries
>> should be posted to, then please suggest.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Okash
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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[John Covici]

Well mine I think is the same: the latest commit is
commit 81e05acfeeae3547f88f8847824a5e2fca200197 (HEAD -> master,
origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 21 11:05:26 2011 -0600


On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 03:20:19 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Thanks. I'll run it with espeak.
> 
> The source I am using is https://github.com/williamh/speechd-up which
> shows last update in Jan 2011. I might have to downgrade the text
> tools to version compatible with speechd-up. I would prefer to bypass
> texi stuff and still get relevant modules compiled, if possible.
> Here's the error:
> 
> ./fdl.texi:404: raising the section level of @appendixsubsec which is too low
> 
> Thanks,
> Okash
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 6:25 PM, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > I am not sure it will work with festival, I did get it to work with
> > espeak -- it may need an actual driver rather than the generic
> > modules.
> > It was a while ago, but I did not get any errors during the make,
> > maybe I have some of those text tools.
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:32:31 -0400,
> > Okash Khawaja wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to set up speechd-up but I can't get it to emit any sound
> >> when running from text console. It works when running from GUI
> >> (kde plasma). To test I am running: speechd-up --probe.
> >>
> >> When compiling speechd-up with `make all`, I got texi errors. So I just
> >> did `make speechd-up`. Here's my setup: festival + speechd + speechd-up
> >> + speakup_soft. I am running it on arch linux.
> >>
> >> Any help will be great. If there's some other mailing list such queries
> >> should be posted to, then please suggest.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Okash
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> >>
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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Chris Brannon]

Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:

> The source I am using is https://github.com/williamh/speechd-up which
> shows last update in Jan 2011. I might have to downgrade the text
> tools to version compatible with speechd-up. I would prefer to bypass
> texi stuff and still get relevant modules compiled, if possible.
> Here's the error:
>
> ./fdl.texi:404: raising the section level of @appendixsubsec which is too low

Hi,
Since you don't really need to read the fdl locally, just edit
speechd-up.texi and remove the line
@include fdl.texi.

-- Chris

Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

On 13 Aug 2017 3:20 pm, "Chris Brannon" <chris@the-brannons.com> wrote:

Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:

> The source I am using is https://github.com/williamh/speechd-up which
> shows last update in Jan 2011. I might have to downgrade the text
> tools to version compatible with speechd-up. I would prefer to bypass
> texi stuff and still get relevant modules compiled, if possible.
> Here's the error:
>
> ./fdl.texi:404: raising the section level of @appendixsubsec which is too
low

Hi,
Since you don't really need to read the fdl locally, just edit
speechd-up.texi and remove the line
@include fdl.texi.


Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console. Works
fine from inside GUI.


-- Chris

Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Chris Brannon]

Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console. Works fine from inside GUI. 

So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
Does spd-say work from a text console at all?

-- Chris

Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[John Covici]

Are you running it through speech-dispatcher?  Do you have espeak
installed?  This isall I ever did and it did work.

On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:11:35 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> On 13 Aug 2017 3:20 pm, "Chris Brannon" <chris@the-brannons.com> wrote:
> 
>  Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>  > The source I am using is https://github.com/williamh/speechd-up which
>  > shows last update in Jan 2011. I might have to downgrade the text
>  > tools to version compatible with speechd-up. I would prefer to bypass
>  > texi stuff and still get relevant modules compiled, if possible.
>  > Here's the error:
>  >
>  > ./fdl.texi:404: raising the section level of @appendixsubsec which is too low
> 
>  Hi,
>  Since you don't really need to read the fdl locally, just edit
>  speechd-up.texi and remove the line
>  @include fdl.texi.
> 
> Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console. Works fine from inside GUI. 
> 
>  -- Chris
> 

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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[John Covici]

I wonder if its an audio problem.  In a text console if you have
espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?

On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
Chris Brannon wrote:
> 
> Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console. Works fine from inside GUI. 
> 
> So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
> But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
> Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
> 
> -- Chris

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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

Sorry about the delay.

> So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
> But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
Exactly

spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.

Thanks,
Okash

On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

I wonder if its an audio problem.  In a text console if you have
espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?

On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
Chris Brannon wrote:
>
> Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console.
Works fine from inside GUI.
>
> So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
> But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
> Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>
> -- Chris

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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[John Covici]

Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user?  Also, are you
using pulse audio?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> Hi, 
> 
> Sorry about the delay. 
> 
> > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
> > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
> Exactly 
> 
> spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Okash
> 
> On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
>  I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>  espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
> 
>  On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>  Chris Brannon wrote:
>  >
>  > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>  >
>  > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console. Works fine from inside GUI.
>  >
>  > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>  > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>  > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>  >
>  > -- Chris
> 
>  --
>  Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>  How do
>  you spend it?
> 
>  John Covici
>  covici@ccs.covici.com
> 

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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is
speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio.

Thanks,
Okash

On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user?  Also, are you
using pulse audio?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
>
> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> Hi,
>
> Sorry about the delay.
>
> > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
> > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
> Exactly
>
> spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
>
> Thanks,
> Okash
>
> On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>
>  I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>  espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
>
>  On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>  Chris Brannon wrote:
>  >
>  > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>  >
>  > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console.
Works fine from inside GUI.
>  >
>  > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>  > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>  > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>  >
>  > -- Chris
>
>  --
>  Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>  How do
>  you spend it?
>
>  John Covici
>  covici@ccs.covici.com
>

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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[John Covici]

Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
works for you.

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:40:17 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> Hi, 
> 
> Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Okash
> 
> On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
>  Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user? Also, are you
>  using pulse audio?
> 
>  On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
>  Okash Khawaja wrote:
>  >
>  > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>  > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Sorry about the delay.
>  >
>  > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>  > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>  > Exactly
>  >
>  > spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Okash
>  >
>  > On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>  > espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
>  >
>  > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>  > Chris Brannon wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>  > >
>  > > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console. Works fine from inside GUI.
>  > >
>  > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>  > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>  > > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>  > >
>  > > -- Chris
>  >
>  > --
>  > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>  > How do
>  > you spend it?
>  >
>  > John Covici
>  > covici@ccs.covici.com
>  >
> 
>  --
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>  How do
>  you spend it?
> 
>  John Covici
>  covici@ccs.covici.com
> 

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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Gregory Nowak]

if you have a /var/log/speechd-up.log is there anything useful
there, such as error messages? If not, try increasing the logging
level by passing -lx to speechd-up, where x is a level from one to
five, with five being the highest I believe. Also, what happens when
you run speechd-up with the -p flag?

Greg


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 03:03:25PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
> service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
> works for you.
> 


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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

Yes speechd-up.log shows error while calling spd_open() to open speech
dispatcher connection. That function is in libspeechd.c.

I'm looking into why that fails but couldn't find speech dispatcher logs.
I've set log path in speechd.conf but nothing there.

Cheers,
Okash


On 14 Aug 2017 8:49 pm, "Gregory Nowak" <greg@gregn.net> wrote:

if you have a /var/log/speechd-up.log is there anything useful
there, such as error messages? If not, try increasing the logging
level by passing -lx to speechd-up, where x is a level from one to
five, with five being the highest I believe. Also, what happens when
you run speechd-up with the -p flag?

Greg


On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 03:03:25PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
> service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
> works for you.
>


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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Okay I'll give it a go.

Thanks ,
Okash

On 14 Aug 2017 8:03 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
works for you.

On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:40:17 -0400,
Okash Khawaja wrote:
>
> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> Hi,
>
> Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is
speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio.
>
> Thanks,
> Okash
>
> On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>
>  Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user? Also, are you
>  using pulse audio?
>
>  On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
>  Okash Khawaja wrote:
>  >
>  > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>  > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Sorry about the delay.
>  >
>  > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>  > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>  > Exactly
>  >
>  > spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Okash
>  >
>  > On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>  > espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
>  >
>  > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>  > Chris Brannon wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>  > >
>  > > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text console.
Works fine from inside GUI.
>  > >
>  > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>  > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>  > > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>  > >
>  > > -- Chris
>  >
>  > --
>  > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>  > How do
>  > you spend it?
>  >
>  > John Covici
>  > covici@ccs.covici.com
>  >
>
>  --
>  Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>  How do
>  you spend it?
>
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>

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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

Changing from pulse to alsa worked. Thanks all very much for help!

Still wonder why spd-say can do spd_open while speechd-up fails. May be
something check later.

Okash

On 15 Aug 2017 7:49 am, "Okash Khawaja" <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay I'll give it a go.
>
> Thanks ,
> Okash
>
> On 14 Aug 2017 8:03 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>
> Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
> service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
> works for you.
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:40:17 -0400,
> Okash Khawaja wrote:
> >
> > [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> > [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> > Hi,
> >
> > Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is
> speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Okash
> >
> > On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user? Also, are you
> >  using pulse audio?
> >
> >  On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
> >  Okash Khawaja wrote:
> >  >
> >  > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
> >  > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> >  > Hi,
> >  >
> >  > Sorry about the delay.
> >  >
> >  > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
> >  > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
> >  > Exactly
> >  >
> >  > spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
> >  >
> >  > Thanks,
> >  > Okash
> >  >
> >  > On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
> >  > espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
> >  >
> >  > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
> >  > Chris Brannon wrote:
> >  > >
> >  > > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
> >  > >
> >  > > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text
> console. Works fine from inside GUI.
> >  > >
> >  > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
> >  > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
> >  > > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
> >  > >
> >  > > -- Chris
> >  >
> >  > --
> >  > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
> >  > How do
> >  > you spend it?
> >  >
> >  > John Covici
> >  > covici@ccs.covici.com
> >  >
> >
> >  --
> >  Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
> >  How do
> >  you spend it?
> >
> >  John Covici
> >  covici@ccs.covici.com
> >
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici
>          covici@ccs.covici.com
>
>
>

Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[chrys]

Howdy,

i know its already fixed :) but say my little penny:
did you run it as root? does speechd-up require root?
if it does i see similar issues while my development in fenrir using 
speech-dispatcher. running spd-conf as root and user and select explicit 
pulseaudio as output solves that issues (if it is the same problem).
running speech-dispatcher via pulse on root does also require some pulse 
setup to stream the "root" sound to the normal user.
i create a script that would do that.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrys87/fenrir/master/tools/configure_pulse.sh

not sure if that makes sense for your issue. i just see this here on 
many fenrir setups (using the speech-dispatcher driver).
cheers chrys
Am 15.08.2017 um 09:33 schrieb Okash Khawaja:
> Hi,
>
> Changing from pulse to alsa worked. Thanks all very much for help!
>
> Still wonder why spd-say can do spd_open while speechd-up fails. May be
> something check later.
>
> Okash
>
> On 15 Aug 2017 7:49 am, "Okash Khawaja" <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Okay I'll give it a go.
>>
>> Thanks ,
>> Okash
>>
>> On 14 Aug 2017 8:03 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
>> service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
>> works for you.
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:40:17 -0400,
>> Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is
>> speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Okash
>>>
>>> On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user? Also, are you
>>>   using pulse audio?
>>>
>>>   On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
>>>   Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>>   >
>>>   > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>   > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>   > Hi,
>>>   >
>>>   > Sorry about the delay.
>>>   >
>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>   > Exactly
>>>   >
>>>   > spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
>>>   >
>>>   > Thanks,
>>>   > Okash
>>>   >
>>>   > On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>   >
>>>   > I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>>>   > espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
>>>   >
>>>   > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>>>   > Chris Brannon wrote:
>>>   > >
>>>   > > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>>>   > >
>>>   > > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text
>> console. Works fine from inside GUI.
>>>   > >
>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>   > > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>>>   > >
>>>   > > -- Chris
>>>   >
>>>   > --
>>>   > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>   > How do
>>>   > you spend it?
>>>   >
>>>   > John Covici
>>>   > covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>   >
>>>
>>>   --
>>>   Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>   How do
>>>   you spend it?
>>>
>>>   John Covici
>>>   covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>
>> --
>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>> How do
>> you spend it?
>>
>>           John Covici
>>           covici@ccs.covici.com
>>
>>
>>
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> Speakup@linux-speakup.org
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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Hey Chrys,

Yes running it as root. This might actually suit my scenario better.
I'll try and see how it goes.

Cheers,
Okash

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:17 AM, chrys <chrys@linux-a11y.org> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> i know its already fixed :) but say my little penny:
> did you run it as root? does speechd-up require root?
> if it does i see similar issues while my development in fenrir using
> speech-dispatcher. running spd-conf as root and user and select explicit
> pulseaudio as output solves that issues (if it is the same problem).
> running speech-dispatcher via pulse on root does also require some pulse
> setup to stream the "root" sound to the normal user.
> i create a script that would do that.
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrys87/fenrir/master/tools/configure_pulse.sh
>
> not sure if that makes sense for your issue. i just see this here on many
> fenrir setups (using the speech-dispatcher driver).
> cheers chrys
>
> Am 15.08.2017 um 09:33 schrieb Okash Khawaja:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Changing from pulse to alsa worked. Thanks all very much for help!
>>
>> Still wonder why spd-say can do spd_open while speechd-up fails. May be
>> something check later.
>>
>> Okash
>>
>> On 15 Aug 2017 7:49 am, "Okash Khawaja" <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Okay I'll give it a go.
>>>
>>> Thanks ,
>>> Okash
>>>
>>> On 14 Aug 2017 8:03 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
>>> service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
>>> works for you.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:40:17 -0400,
>>> Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is
>>>
>>> speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Okash
>>>>
>>>> On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user? Also, are you
>>>>   using pulse audio?
>>>>
>>>>   On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
>>>>   Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>>>   >
>>>>   > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>>   > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>>   > Hi,
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Sorry about the delay.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>>   > Exactly
>>>>   >
>>>>   > spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Thanks,
>>>>   > Okash
>>>>   >
>>>>   > On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>   >
>>>>   > I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>>>>   > espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
>>>>   >
>>>>   > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>>>>   > Chris Brannon wrote:
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text
>>>
>>> console. Works fine from inside GUI.
>>>>
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>>   > > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > -- Chris
>>>>   >
>>>>   > --
>>>>   > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>>   > How do
>>>>   > you spend it?
>>>>   >
>>>>   > John Covici
>>>>   > covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>>   >
>>>>
>>>>   --
>>>>   Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>>   How do
>>>>   you spend it?
>>>>
>>>>   John Covici
>>>>   covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>>> How do
>>> you spend it?
>>>
>>>           John Covici
>>>           covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
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Re: speechd-up not working on text console

[Okash Khawaja]

Okay after chrys's post, I tried to run speechd-up without root which
now works with pulse. Here's what I did:

1. either configure speechd-up to use locations other than /var/run/ and
 /var/log/ for pidfile and logfile, or fix permissions some other way

2. create group 'speakup' and add logged in user to that group

3. add following lines to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-local.rules:

KERNEL=="synth",GROUP="speakup"
KERNEL=="softsynth",GROUP="speakup"

Thanks,
Okash

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Chrys,
>
> Yes running it as root. This might actually suit my scenario better.
> I'll try and see how it goes.
>
> Cheers,
> Okash
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:17 AM, chrys <chrys@linux-a11y.org> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> i know its already fixed :) but say my little penny:
>> did you run it as root? does speechd-up require root?
>> if it does i see similar issues while my development in fenrir using
>> speech-dispatcher. running spd-conf as root and user and select explicit
>> pulseaudio as output solves that issues (if it is the same problem).
>> running speech-dispatcher via pulse on root does also require some pulse
>> setup to stream the "root" sound to the normal user.
>> i create a script that would do that.
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrys87/fenrir/master/tools/configure_pulse.sh
>>
>> not sure if that makes sense for your issue. i just see this here on many
>> fenrir setups (using the speech-dispatcher driver).
>> cheers chrys
>>
>> Am 15.08.2017 um 09:33 schrieb Okash Khawaja:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Changing from pulse to alsa worked. Thanks all very much for help!
>>>
>>> Still wonder why spd-say can do spd_open while speechd-up fails. May be
>>> something check later.
>>>
>>> Okash
>>>
>>> On 15 Aug 2017 7:49 am, "Okash Khawaja" <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Okay I'll give it a go.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks ,
>>>> Okash
>>>>
>>>> On 14 Aug 2017 8:03 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
>>>> service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
>>>> works for you.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:40:17 -0400,
>>>> Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>>> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is
>>>>
>>>> speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Okash
>>>>>
>>>>> On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user? Also, are you
>>>>>   using pulse audio?
>>>>>
>>>>>   On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
>>>>>   Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>>>   > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>>>   > Hi,
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > Sorry about the delay.
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>>>   > Exactly
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > Thanks,
>>>>>   > Okash
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>>>>>   > espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>>>>>   > Chris Brannon wrote:
>>>>>   > >
>>>>>   > > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>   > >
>>>>>   > > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text
>>>>
>>>> console. Works fine from inside GUI.
>>>>>
>>>>>   > >
>>>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>>>   > > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>>>>>   > >
>>>>>   > > -- Chris
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > --
>>>>>   > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>>>   > How do
>>>>>   > you spend it?
>>>>>   >
>>>>>   > John Covici
>>>>>   > covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>>>   >
>>>>>
>>>>>   --
>>>>>   Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>>>   How do
>>>>>   you spend it?
>>>>>
>>>>>   John Covici
>>>>>   covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>>>> How do
>>>> you spend it?
>>>>
>>>>           John Covici
>>>>           covici@ccs.covici.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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