speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech

[Michael Whapples]

If you want alsa support, you will need the dev alsa packages as well 
(probably something like libasound2-dev).

Also you may want to install the latest version of espeak if you are using 
the espeak specific module (the module called espeak, not espeak-generic) as 
earlier versions don't support changing the espeak voice through 
speech-dispatcher.

Also try disabling any modules you don't actually want, while it doesn't 
solve the problem being there in speech-dispatcher, it removes it for you.

So if you still get errors with modules you need, say which ones you are 
using (I suggest using the speech-dispatcher names as there the two espeak 
modules, espeak and espeak-generic, and things are different for these two 
modules).

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: speech-dispatcher beta 1, no speech


>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.
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>Thanks much in advance,
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>>Guy
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