festival and speech dispatcher FC6

festival and speech dispatcher FC6

[Guy Schlosser]

	Hey all, the sound problem is fixed.  I have a question though, and 
it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher.  I installed S-D 
0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in a previous message, 
and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message that says 
"connection refused."  Do I have to put festival in some kind of 
daemon mode or something?  If anyone has had this issue and can give 
me some pointers for solving it, that would be awesome.  I think I'm 
gonna install Espeak, and see if I can't get it working with 
that.  Thanks in advance for the help.


Guy


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Re: festival and speech dispatcher FC6

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:20, Guy Schlosser wrote:
> 	Hey all, the sound problem is fixed.  I have a question though, and
> it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher.  I installed S-D
> 0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in a previous message,
> and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message that says
> "connection refused."  Do I have to put festival in some kind of
> daemon mode or something?  If anyone has had this issue and can give
> me some pointers for solving it, that would be awesome.  I think I'm
> gonna install Espeak, and see if I can't get it working with
> that.  Thanks in advance for the help.

From the Speech Dispatcher INSTALL file:

----
Installing Festival Speech Dispatcher interface:
================================================

You need to install the new version of festival-freebsoft-utils (0.3
or higher).

Please make sure that Festival server_access_list configuration
variable and your /etc/hosts.conf are set properly. server_access_list
must contain the symbolic name of your machine and this name must be
defined in /etc/hosts.conf and point to your IP address. You can test
if this is set correctly by trying to connect to the port Festival
server is running on via an ordinary telnet. If you are not rejected,
it probably works.
----

On my system (Debian), file /etc/festival.scm contains the following:

----
;; Any site-wide Festival initialization can be added to this file.
;; It is marked as a configuration file, so your changes will be saved
;; across upgrades of the Festival package.

(set! server_access_list '("localhost"))
----

and my /etc/hosts file contains:

127.0.0.1       localhost       newton

"newton" being my machine's host name.

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Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)

Re: festival and speech dispatcher FC6

[Michael Whapples]

Don't forget to start festival as a server (the --server option, or have 
festival start as a server on startup, if using a rpm package it probably 
comes with the start script). 

Any way I would suggest espeak rather than festival.

From
Michael Whapples

Gary Cramblitt writes:

> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:20, Guy Schlosser wrote:
>> 	Hey all, the sound problem is fixed.  I have a question though, and
>> it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher.  I installed S-D
>> 0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in a previous message,
>> and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message that says
>> "connection refused."  Do I have to put festival in some kind of
>> daemon mode or something?  If anyone has had this issue and can give
>> me some pointers for solving it, that would be awesome.  I think I'm
>> gonna install Espeak, and see if I can't get it working with
>> that.  Thanks in advance for the help.
> 
> From the Speech Dispatcher INSTALL file:
> 
> ----
> Installing Festival Speech Dispatcher interface:
> ================================================
> 
> You need to install the new version of festival-freebsoft-utils (0.3
> or higher).
> 
> Please make sure that Festival server_access_list configuration
> variable and your /etc/hosts.conf are set properly. server_access_list
> must contain the symbolic name of your machine and this name must be
> defined in /etc/hosts.conf and point to your IP address. You can test
> if this is set correctly by trying to connect to the port Festival
> server is running on via an ordinary telnet. If you are not rejected,
> it probably works.
> ----
> 
> On my system (Debian), file /etc/festival.scm contains the following:
> 
> ----
> ;; Any site-wide Festival initialization can be added to this file.
> ;; It is marked as a configuration file, so your changes will be saved
> ;; across upgrades of the Festival package.
> 
> (set! server_access_list '("localhost"))
> ----
> 
> and my /etc/hosts file contains:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost       newton
> 
> "newton" being my machine's host name.
> 
> -- 
> Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
> 
> 
> 

Re: festival and speech dispatcher FC6

[hanke]

> Hey all, the sound problem is fixed.  I have a question
> though, and it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher.
> I installed S-D  0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in
> a
> > previous message, and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message
> > that says "connection refused."  Do I have to put festival in
> some kind of  daemon mode or something? 

Hello Guy,

yes, you need to run Festival in the server mode. This is however likely
not the cause of the problem you describe. If spd-say says it can't
connect, it means it can't connec to Speech Dispatcher. So I'd bet Speech
Dispatcher is not running. Please look at the end of /var/log/speech-dispatcher/speechd.log
(or similar, I'm not sure where the Fedora Core package places the log
files). If the file is empty, or you don't have any, chances are it
was not possible to create the logfile on your system. Then try running
Speech Dispatcher on the foreground like this
speech-dispatcher -s -l 5
and see what does it print out on the console.

One of these should give you a good idea about what is going wrong. If
it is something non-trivial, please write us, since maybe the package
needs fixing or something.

With regards,
Hynek Hanke



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Re: festival and speech dispatcher FC6

[guy schlosser]

Hey Gary, thanks for the info.  I'm thinking though that my problem 
consists of more than festival, but not sure how to track it 
down.  When I run spd_say "hello world", I get an error that says 
"speech dispatcher failed to start:  Connection refused".  It doesn't 
matter what module I have listed as "DefaultModule" in 
speech-dispatcher.conf.  Any suggestions?  Also, where do I put that 
set server_access_list command?  Thanks in advance for the help.

Thanks,


Guy


At 08:07 PM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:20, Guy Schlosser wrote:
> >       Hey all, the sound problem is fixed.  I have a question though, and
> > it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher.  I installed S-D
> > 0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in a previous message,
> > and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message that says
> > "connection refused."  Do I have to put festival in some kind of
> > daemon mode or something?  If anyone has had this issue and can give
> > me some pointers for solving it, that would be awesome.  I think I'm
> > gonna install Espeak, and see if I can't get it working with
> > that.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> From the Speech Dispatcher INSTALL file:
>
>----
>Installing Festival Speech Dispatcher interface:
>================================================
>
>You need to install the new version of festival-freebsoft-utils (0.3
>or higher).
>
>Please make sure that Festival server_access_list configuration
>variable and your /etc/hosts.conf are set properly. server_access_list
>must contain the symbolic name of your machine and this name must be
>defined in /etc/hosts.conf and point to your IP address. You can test
>if this is set correctly by trying to connect to the port Festival
>server is running on via an ordinary telnet. If you are not rejected,
>it probably works.
>----
>
>On my system (Debian), file /etc/festival.scm contains the following:
>
>----
>;; Any site-wide Festival initialization can be added to this file.
>;; It is marked as a configuration file, so your changes will be saved
>;; across upgrades of the Festival package.
>
>(set! server_access_list '("localhost"))
>----
>
>and my /etc/hosts file contains:
>
>127.0.0.1       localhost       newton
>
>"newton" being my machine's host name.
>
>--
>Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
>
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