regarding speech-dispatcher, dectalk and the init script

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
The dectalk's say program works fine when executed in an initscript by
itself. I put it at the exact same point as I've tried to start speech
dispatcher and it works. It doesn't communicate with a server, it
communicates with the dectalk libraries. For the record, I'm using
slackware, so this init problem isn't tied down to one distribution. I
have it executing in rc.local, which means that it executes right before
the login prompt. By then, all hardware is up, including sound. None of
the log files, speechd, dtk-generic, nor speechd-up indicate any error
messages.

On Sun, 2 May 2004, Hynek Hanke wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> there are currently running various threads that complain that
> the speech dispatcher's dectalk output module doesn't work if
> speech dispatcher is started early during the boot process (before
> login).
>
> I don't know what may cause this, but possibly the problem can be
> that the dectalk "say" program can't operate yet when speech-dispatcher
> is starting. If it communicates to some server and the server is not
> running yet, maybe the say command returns with an error and the output
> module dies.