Fwd: speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech

[Guy Schlosser]

I forgot to mention in my previous post that I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 
with Espeak 1.25.  Again, thanks in advance for the help.


Guy

>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:12:42 -0400
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>From: Guy Schlosser <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
>Subject: speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech
>
>Hi all, I installed the speech-dispatcher 0.6.4 beta 1 today, and 
>have a few problems.  Not sure if they are a problem with the beta 
>or something on my system, but if someone could help me sort it out, 
>it would be greatly appreciated.  When I rebooted my computer after 
>install, and recompiling the python bindings, I get no speech.  I 
>then got orca back to a speakable state, and found the following 
>problems when I examined /var/log/speechd.log, I see the message 
>"bad syntax from module Espeak.  I also see some problems with 
>module ibmtts.  The messages are: Broken pipe to module and library 
>not compiled with alsa support.  Anyone have any suggestions?  As 
>always, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks much in advance,
>
>
>Guy