help with espeak?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Check the permissions and owner/group on espeak-data, and the files
that are in there. I found that under Debian at least, the permissions
and owner/group that the espeak distribution has set by default were
what was causing espeak not to speak for me. I found that setting the
espeak-data directory permissions to 755, and the permissions of the
files under espeak-data to 644 was what worked for me. I also have
both the directory and the files in it set to owner root, and group
root. Finally, the permissions on the speak binary are also set to
755, and the owner/group are root as well. 

This is on a stand-alone system, which only I use, and which isn't
hooked up to my network frequently, which is separate from the outside
world anyway, so the above setup doesn't bother me in terms of any
possible security wholes in the slightest.

Also, make sure that speak is in the path. If you're using it via
speech-dispatcher, instead of just having speak in
espeak-generic.conf, you want to supply the full path,
(I.E. /usr/local/bin/speak in my case).

If espeak still doesn't work, especially by itself without
speech-dispatcher, then given that you had problems you said with
another speech engine failing to speak, I'd get your soundcard/speaker
issue resolved first, before moving forward, since that would seem to
be the main problem here in that case.

Greg


On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:34:49AM -0600, TheCreator wrote:
> Hello list,
> I'm trying to run espeak. I moved the data dir to /usr/share, and 
> when I run it, I don't get any errors, but its not giving me any sound.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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