festival with speech-dispatcher

[Charles Hallenbeck]

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Can someone please look at this and suggest what I am doing wrong? I am 
using a Debian distro and have have speech-dispatcher 0.6 working fine 
with flite and espeak. I now want to see how it works with festival. I 
have installed festival and associated packages from Debian package 
archives, and have verified that it works in the interactive mode, as 
well as command line mode with the --tts option.

Here is my problem. When I activate the festival daemon and make the 
necessary modifications to speechd.confand festival.conf in 
speech-dispatcher, and also to /etc/festival.scm, switching to sftsyn in 
speakup does not produce speech. I can reactivate speech by switching 
back to my ltlk driver.

Here is the relevant speech-dispatcher.log info:
[Fri Jun 9 06:33:50 2006 : 796748] speechd: ERROR: Module festival 
failed to initialize. Reason:
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 Communicating with Festival through a socket. Can't connect to Festival 
server. Check your configuration in etc/speechd-modules/festival.conf 
for the specified host and port and check if Festival is really running 
there, e.g. with telnet. Please see documentation for more info.
So, I did that. The relevant lines from the speech-dispatcher 
festival.conf module are these:

FestivalServerHost  "hq.hhs48.com"
FestivalServerPort   1314

and from /etc/festival.scm  are these lines:

(require 'speech-dispatcher)
(defvar server_access_list '(hq\.hhs\.com))
(defvar server_port 1314)
Now, when I try connecting to the server with telnet, I get this:

hq:~# telnet hq.hhs48.com 1314
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to hq.hhs48.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

The connection is closed immediately. Something is running on 1314, 
since if it were not, I would get a "connection refused" error. And the 
festival server has a process ID, and can be restarted when changes are 
made to its configuration, acquiring a new PID. But speech-dispatcher 
can't connect to it, and telnet cannot connect either.

Can someone spot something I am overlooking? I would appreciate any 
suggestions.

Thanks,
Chuck




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