Trouble with speech dispatcher.

[Steve Holmes]

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I used the same shell script I've always been using.  The only thing
that really changed was Speakup version; wonder if that could have
anything to do with it? I echo "none" to /proc/speakup/synth_name unload
any modules then start speechd-up and speech dispatcher in proper order
and then echo sftsyn to synth_name again.  Oops, I am raddling this off
the top of my head but I think speakup's synth is being set first and
then speechd-up is started.  No matter, I'm using the same script I used
a month or two ago and it worked then but not now <sigh>.  Maybe I'll
have to go and try and run each of those steps manually with a second or
two to spare between each.  I'm just baffled that it can't find
/dev/softsynth when it is *REALLY THERE*.

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:32:42PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 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
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> 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
> > - ----- Beginning of log -----
> > [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)
> > - ----- End of log -----
> > 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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