festival and speech dispatcher FC6

[guy schlosser]

Hey Gary, thanks for the info.  I'm thinking though that my problem 
consists of more than festival, but not sure how to track it 
down.  When I run spd_say "hello world", I get an error that says 
"speech dispatcher failed to start:  Connection refused".  It doesn't 
matter what module I have listed as "DefaultModule" in 
speech-dispatcher.conf.  Any suggestions?  Also, where do I put that 
set server_access_list command?  Thanks in advance for the help.

Thanks,


Guy


At 08:07 PM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:20, Guy Schlosser wrote:
> >       Hey all, the sound problem is fixed.  I have a question though, and
> > it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher.  I installed S-D
> > 0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in a previous message,
> > and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message that says
> > "connection refused."  Do I have to put festival in some kind of
> > daemon mode or something?  If anyone has had this issue and can give
> > me some pointers for solving it, that would be awesome.  I think I'm
> > gonna install Espeak, and see if I can't get it working with
> > that.  Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> From the Speech Dispatcher INSTALL file:
>
>----
>Installing Festival Speech Dispatcher interface:
>================================================
>
>You need to install the new version of festival-freebsoft-utils (0.3
>or higher).
>
>Please make sure that Festival server_access_list configuration
>variable and your /etc/hosts.conf are set properly. server_access_list
>must contain the symbolic name of your machine and this name must be
>defined in /etc/hosts.conf and point to your IP address. You can test
>if this is set correctly by trying to connect to the port Festival
>server is running on via an ordinary telnet. If you are not rejected,
>it probably works.
>----
>
>On my system (Debian), file /etc/festival.scm contains the following:
>
>----
>;; Any site-wide Festival initialization can be added to this file.
>;; It is marked as a configuration file, so your changes will be saved
>;; across upgrades of the Festival package.
>
>(set! server_access_list '("localhost"))
>----
>
>and my /etc/hosts file contains:
>
>127.0.0.1       localhost       newton
>
>"newton" being my machine's host name.
>
>--
>Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
>
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