From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: a quick question
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:42:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7E2B90A925184665B76BC94BF213F828@golly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002701c8d2f3$5895d740$0201a8c0@tdsportable>
Well you might want to see if the festival server is even running.
stop speech-dispatcher and then try this command as root.
"nohup festival --server &"
then restart speech-dispatcher with it configured to use festival and try
your spd-say command again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:33 PM
Subject: a quick question
> Hello list,
> I've finally got everything up and running again, and have been doing some
> playing around.
> I'd like to get software speech going, so I can continue my origenal idea
> of compiling a kernel.
> I started reading docks, and got as far as speech-dispatcher
> I've installed it, and spd-say "Hello" just hangs. as well as using hello
> without the quotes.
> I've rebooted the service via init.d ./speech-dispatcher restart, and also
> changed the synths from flite to festival, and back again to make sure
> that it wasn't just the synth.
> Festival works perfect--I'm just having trouble communicating with the
> synth via spd-say.
> Any ideas why its hanging?
> The docs on getting software speech working with speakup was rather vague.
> I've also got an issue with ssh, that I thought may be able to be fixed
> here.
> When I'm compiling, reading nampages, etc I see a lot of euros
> a-circumflex marks all over.
> Is there something wrong with my terminal? Not sure why it's showing that.
> Thanks for the help in advance,
> Thanks,
> ~~TheCreator~~
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