Trouble with speech dispatcher.

[Michael Whapples]

I know this may seem obvious, but have you changed speakup to sftsyn before 
trying to start speechd-up? (I have tried to get my email client to try and 
connect to hotwayd, but forgotten to start it, and then it suddenly dawned 
on me). I found that it doesn't always start unless that is done. Don't know 
if that would give the error you are saying about in the log, but worth a 
try.
From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Trouble with speech dispatcher.


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> More specificly, I'm having trouble with speechd-up.  It says it cannot
> find /dev/softsynth.  Well, I have had that device all along and I just
> now rebuilt it in case there was something wrong and I still have the
> problem.  I'm now using Speakup from latest CVS with kernel 2.6.16.12,
> Speech-dispatcher 0.6 and speechd-up 0.3.  I should point out that I was
> using this stuff a month or so ago with Dectalk speech and no problems
> at that time.  I will now include the log from /var/log/speechd-up.log
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> [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Speechd-speakup starts!
> [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Error while openning the device in 
> read/write mode 19,No such device
> [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Trying to open the device in the old 
> way.
> [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: Error while openning the device in 
> read mode 19,No such device
> [Wed May 17 00:19:57 2006] speechd: ERROR! Unable to open soft synth 
> device (/dev/softsynth)
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> Yes, if I do a ls -l on /dev/softsynth, I get the following:
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 10, 26 2006-05-17 00:18 softsynth
> This is inside the /dev directory.
>
> I get same errors whether I try using Dectalk, flite or now espeak.  In
> fact, I manually tested espeak through the spd-say command and that part
> does work.  So it is the soft synth problem that I can't figure out.
>
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