help with espeak?

[TheCreator]

What do you mean speach-dispatcher? do I haev to have another prog to?
Thanks,At 10:51 AM 9/30/06, you wrote:
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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,
> >
> >
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