can't get espeak working with speech dispatcher and speechd-up

[Gregory Nowak]

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Thanks to Tyler S., Hynek, and Chuck in no particular order for your
help.

When installing espeak, I just copied the espeak-data directory
verbatim to /usr/share/, without checking the permissions on the
directory or files, assuming they were ok. When testing espeak, I
tested it as root, without bothering to check if a normal user could
use it also. It turns out that when running espeak as a normal user,
it couldn't access the files in /usr/share/espeak-data, and fixing the
permissions solved this, and also allowed espeak to be useable with
speechd-up. So, that was the problem, which I admit I should have
thought of sooner.

Also, Chuck was right that the speak binary has to exist in /usr/bin,
rather then in /usr/local/bin, however, since I don't like software
installed manually to exist outside of /usr/local/, providing the full
path to speak in espeak-generic.conf solves that issue, while still
allowing speak to remain in /usr/local/bin. Speaking of that, is it
possible to specify the path to espeak-data without having to
recompile? If not, where in the source can this be changed? I'd like
to have espeak-data in /usr/local/share, rather then in /usr/share.

I'm writing this message on the machine which I've installed espeak
on, and have to side with all the other comments I've seen on this
list. The speech quality is very refreshing when compared to festival,
flite, and even to the bns. My hat off to Jonathan for such a
great software synth, with a small footprint, that sill has lots of potential down the road.

Greg


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:02:08PM -0400, chuckh at hhs48.com wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> I just configured a system similarly with no problems. Did you perchance 
> put the speak command in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/bin?  Typing the 
> speak command on a command line would work either way, but I think 
> speech-dispatcher wants it to be in /usr/bin.
> 
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