a quick question

a quick question

[Tyler Littlefield]

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,
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RE: a quick question

[Alastair Irving]

Is there anything useful in the logs under /var/log/speech-dispatcher?

I haven't used festival for some time, but you may need to install
festival-freebsoft utils.  Alternatively, use espeak which is generally much
more responsive than festival.

HTH

Alastair Irving 



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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~~ Visit TDS for quality software
and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for
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Re: a quick question

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hello,
I'll switch to espeak after I've gotten it working--flite/festival are the 
supported ones right now in the config.
The speech-dispatcher log is empty as are the festival and flite logs.
Thanks,
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From: "Alastair Irving" <alastair.irving@sjc.ox.ac.uk>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: a quick question


> Is there anything useful in the logs under /var/log/speech-dispatcher?
>
> I haven't used festival for some time, but you may need to install
> festival-freebsoft utils.  Alternatively, use espeak which is generally 
> much
> more responsive than festival.
>
> HTH
>
> Alastair Irving
>
>
>
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> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
> Sent: 20 June 2008 17:33
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> 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~~ Visit TDS for quality software
> and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for
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Re: a quick question

[Gregory Nowak]

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In that case, try increasing the loglevel for speech-dispatcher. Also,
assuming you're still using debian, you need to allow localhost to
access festival, it isn't allowed out of the box. Instructions on
doing this are in /usr/share/docs/festival/README.Debian. Also, if
your final intent is to move to espeak, getting festival working
first, and then moving to espeak makes no sense, and is just a waste
of your time/effort. If going to espeak is your final intent, skip
festival altogether, and go to espeak directly.

Greg


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:52:05AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> Hello,
> I'll switch to espeak after I've gotten it working--flite/festival are 
> the supported ones right now in the config.
> The speech-dispatcher log is empty as are the festival and flite logs.
> Thanks,
> ~~TheCreator~~
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Re: a quick question

[Tyler Littlefield]

Yeah, I'm still using debian. and thanks. I wasn't aware that that file 
existed. I'm trying to read more docs before I ask. I did probe around the 
manpages some, but didn't see what I needed.
Thanks again,
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To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: a quick question


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> In that case, try increasing the loglevel for speech-dispatcher. Also,
> assuming you're still using debian, you need to allow localhost to
> access festival, it isn't allowed out of the box. Instructions on
> doing this are in /usr/share/docs/festival/README.Debian. Also, if
> your final intent is to move to espeak, getting festival working
> first, and then moving to espeak makes no sense, and is just a waste
> of your time/effort. If going to espeak is your final intent, skip
> festival altogether, and go to espeak directly.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:52:05AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'll switch to espeak after I've gotten it working--flite/festival are
>> the supported ones right now in the config.
>> The speech-dispatcher log is empty as are the festival and flite logs.
>> Thanks,
>> ~~TheCreator~~
>> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
>> http://tysdomain.com
>> visit the piratecafe for programming related resources:
>> http://piratecafe.net
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>> skype: st8amnd127
>
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Re: a quick question

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hello,
I'll go the espeak route, I assume all I need to do is change my module in 
the speech-dispatcher conf file?
sorry for all the questions, the docs here are kinda limited.
If I go this route, will I still need to configure espeak like festival?

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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: a quick question


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> In that case, try increasing the loglevel for speech-dispatcher. Also,
> assuming you're still using debian, you need to allow localhost to
> access festival, it isn't allowed out of the box. Instructions on
> doing this are in /usr/share/docs/festival/README.Debian. Also, if
> your final intent is to move to espeak, getting festival working
> first, and then moving to espeak makes no sense, and is just a waste
> of your time/effort. If going to espeak is your final intent, skip
> festival altogether, and go to espeak directly.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:52:05AM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'll switch to espeak after I've gotten it working--flite/festival are
>> the supported ones right now in the config.
>> The speech-dispatcher log is empty as are the festival and flite logs.
>> Thanks,
>> ~~TheCreator~~
>> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
>> http://tysdomain.com
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>> http://piratecafe.net
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Re: a quick question

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49:28PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> I'll go the espeak route, I assume all I need to do is change my module 
> in the speech-dispatcher conf file?

Yes, as far as I recall anyway. I'd recommend using the espeak module,
rather than the espeak-generic module.

> If I go this route, will I still need to configure espeak like festival?

No.

Greg


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Re: a quick question

[Nick Stockton]

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~~
> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
> http://tysdomain.com
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Re: a quick question

[Tyler Littlefield]

lovely, seg fault
Starting speech-dispatcher: ./speech-dispatcher: line 25: 12187 Segmentation 
fault      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid $U
SER --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
thanks for the idea though. it helped me find that error... need to figure 
out what the deal is.

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From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: a quick question


> 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~~
>> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
>> http://tysdomain.com
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>> http://piratecafe.net
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Re: a quick question

[Nick Stockton]

oh forgot to menchen that you need the festival freebsoft utils packages
I installed my speech-dispatcher from source but I installed freebsoft utils 
using aptitude
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To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: a quick question


> lovely, seg fault
> Starting speech-dispatcher: ./speech-dispatcher: line 25: 12187 
> Segmentation fault      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid $U
> SER --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
> thanks for the idea though. it helped me find that error... need to figure 
> out what the deal is.
>
> Thanks,
> ~~TheCreator~~
> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:42 PM
> Subject: Re: a quick question
>
>
>> 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~~
>>> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
>>> http://tysdomain.com
>>> visit the piratecafe for programming related resources:
>>> http://piratecafe.net
>>> msn: tyler@tysdomain.com
>>> skype: st8amnd127
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>>> Speakup mailing list
>>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: a quick question

[Tyler Littlefield]

I've got speech-dispatcher-festival and it's deps.
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To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: a quick question


> oh forgot to menchen that you need the festival freebsoft utils packages
> I installed my speech-dispatcher from source but I installed freebsoft 
> utils using aptitude
> ----- 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 3:51 PM
> Subject: Re: a quick question
>
>
>> lovely, seg fault
>> Starting speech-dispatcher: ./speech-dispatcher: line 25: 12187 
>> Segmentation fault      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid $U
>> SER --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
>> thanks for the idea though. it helped me find that error... need to 
>> figure out what the deal is.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~~TheCreator~~
>> Visit TDS for quality software and website production
>> http://tysdomain.com
>> visit the piratecafe for programming related resources:
>> http://piratecafe.net
>> msn: tyler@tysdomain.com
>> skype: st8amnd127
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@gmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: a quick question
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>>> 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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Weird Characters (was: a quick question)

[luke]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> 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? 

I've got the same problem, although I see a lot of "white square", "Null" 
marks, and other annoying things in place of some dashes, single quotes, 
and other things.

I think it's a Unicode/UTF-8 or other character set issue, but have never 
spent the time to sort it out.

This also happens if I use pdftotext or antiword or the like, to send data 
into a text file--I have to go over to a FreeBSD system if I want 
unmangled data.

Luke