From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.nottingham.ac.uk ([128.243.44.4]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GXwPR-0004LC-00 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:59:21 -0400 Received: from zcd-107-110.sns.nottingham.ac.uk ([10.3.107.110] helo=layla) by smtp1.nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXwOY-0007V0-Hs for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:58:26 +0100 References: <7.0.1.0.2.20061011180502.025a7c88@sbcglobal.net> <200610112007.00633.garycramblitt@comcast.net> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Michael Whapples To: Speakup is a screen review system for =?ISO-8859-1?B?TGludXgu?= Subject: Re: festival and speech dispatcher FC6 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:00:27 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UoN-MailScanner-Information: Please contact staff-it-helpline@nottingham.ac.uk for more information X-UoN-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UoN-MailScanner-From: mikster4@msn.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:59:22 -0000 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) > > >