Speechd-up Issues

Chuck Hallenbeck chuckh at sent.com
Thu May 6 18:33:26 EDT 2004


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There's another difference: the laptop is a lot slower. Put a
"sleep 1" in your script after launching speech-dispatcher.

HTH

Chuck

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I'm down to a strange pattern on one of my boxes when it comes to
> launching Speech Dispatcher, speakup and speechd_up in that order.  It
> basically comes down to this.  dispatcher and speakup are loading
> correctly; that is, /proc/speakup/synth_name is properly set to
> softsynth.  If I do this sequence from any shell script, speechd_up
> logs an error about [y being an invalid command or something and I get
> no speech.  Then if I killall speechd_up and follow that by restarting
> speechd_up, I get speech.  For whatever reason, speechd_up doesn't
> like getting loaded from a script.  This is on a desktop machine
> running kernel 2.4.25 with ALSA.
>
> Here's a strange deal though.  On my P120 laptop, I do the exact same
> sequence and it loads properly every time.  The differences are that
> the laptop is running OSS drivers and the kernel is 2.4.26.
>
> Any possible explanation for the difference in behavior?
>
> I have to say this is working out greate for my laptop.  We've come a
> long ways!
>
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