problem with voxin and speakup

[Bill Cox]

Your setup looks right.  The problem is likely incompatibility between
the latest speech-dispatcher from Luke and the sd_ibmtts file I
compiled for my previous version of speech-dispatcher.

What exact version of speech-dispatcher do you have?

Bill

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Berkó Norbert <berko.norbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hy all,
>
> I using ubuntu lucid 32 bit system.
> I installed speech-dispatcher-voxin from vinux lucid ppa.
> I running speech-dispatcher as a system daemon, so I removed comment before
> ibmtts line in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, and enabled port 6560.
> Pulseaudio running as a system daemon.
> My default module is ibmtts. I would like to use speakup with speechd-up and
> voxin.
> If i running speech-dispatcher  with espeak, speakup works well.
>  I would like to use espeakup, but do not work well with pulseaudio.
> This is my speechd.conf file:
>
> # Global configuration for Speech Dispatcher
> # ==========================================
>
> # -----SYSTEM OPTIONS-----
>
> # The Port on which Speech Dispatcher should be available
> # to clients.
>
> Port 6560
>
> # By default, the specified port is opened only for connections
> # comming from localhost. If LocalhostAccessOnly is set to 0 it
> # disables this access controll. It means that the port will be
> # accessible from all computers on the network. If you turn off this
> # option, please make sure you set up some system rules on what
> # computers are and are not allowed to access the Speech Dispatcher
> # port.
>
> # LocalhostAccessOnly 1
>
> # -----LOGGING CONFIGURATION-----
>
> # The LogLevel is a number between 0 and 5 that specifies
> # how much of the logging information should be printed
> # out on the screen or in the logfile (see LogFile)
> # 0 means nothing, 5 means everything (not recommended).
>
> LogLevel  0
>
> # The LogDir specifies where Speech Dispatcher writes its logging messages
> # (status information, error messages, etc.).  Specify "stdout" for
> # standard console output or a directory path. 'default' means that
> # the logs are written to the default destination (e.g. a preconfigured
> # system directory or the home directory if .speech-dispatcher is present)
> # DO NOT COMMENT OUT THIS OPTION, SET IT TO "default" if you do not
> # want to influence it.
>
> LogDir  "default"
> #LogDir  "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/"
> #LogDir  "stdout"
>
> # The CustomLogFile allows logging all messages of the given kind,
> # regardless their priority, to the given destination.
>
> #CustomLogFile "protocol"
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-protocol.log"
>
> # ----- VOICE PARAMETERS -----
>
> # The DefaultRate controls how fast the synthesizer is going to speak.
> # The value must be between -100 (slowest) and +100 (fastest), default
> # is 0.
>
> # DefaultRate  0
>
> # The DefaultPitch controls the pitch of the synthesized voice.  The
> # value must be between -100 (lowest) and +100 (highest), default is
> # 0.
>
> # DefaultPitch  0
>
> # The DefaultVolume constrols the default volume of the voice.  It is
> # a value between -100 (softly) and +100 (loudly).  Currently, +100
> # maps to the default volume of the synthesizer.
>
> DefaultVolume 100
>
> # The DefaultVoiceType controls which voice type should be used by
> # default.  Voice types are symbolic names which map to particular
> # voices provided by the synthesizer according to the output module
> # configuratuion.  Please see the synthesizer-specific configuration
> # in etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ to see which voices are assigned to
> # different symbolic names.  The following symbolic names are
> # currently supported: MALE1, MALE2, MALE3, FEMALE1, FEMALE2, FEMALE3,
> # CHILD_MALE, CHILD_FEMALE
>
> # DefaultVoiceType  "MALE1"
>
> # The Default language with which to speak
>
> # DefaultLanguage "en"
>
>
> # ----- MESSAGE DISPATCHING CONTROLL -----
>
> # The DefaultClientName specifies the name of a client who didn't
> # introduce himself at the beginning of an SSIP session.
>
> # DefaultClientName  "unknown:unknown:unknown"
>
> # The Default Priority. Use with caution, normally this shouldn't be
> # changed globally (at this place)
>
> # DefaultPriority  "text"
>
> # The DefaultPauseContext specifies by how many index marks a speech
> # cursor should return when resuming after a pause. This is roughly
> # equivalent to the number of sentences before the place of the
> # execution of pause that will be repeated.
>
> # DefaultPauseContext 0
>
> # -----SPELLING/PUNCTUATION/CAPITAL LETTERS  CONFIGURATION-----
>
> # The DefaultPunctuationMode sets the way dots, comas, exclamation
> # marks, question marks etc. are interpreted.  none: they are ignored
> # some: some of them are sent to synthesis (see
> # DefaultPunctuationSome) all: all punctuation marks are sent to
> # synthesis
>
> # DefaultPunctuationMode "none"
>
> # The DefaultCapLetRecognition: if set to "spell", capital letters
> # should be spelled (e.g. "capital b"), if set to "icon",
> # capital letters are indicated by inserting a special sound
> # before them but they should be read normally, it set to "none"
> # capital letters are not recognized (by default)
>
> # DefaultCapLetRecognition  "none"
>
> # The DefaultSpelling: if set to On, all messages will be spelled
> # unless set otherwise (this is usually not something you want to do.)
>
> # DefaultSpelling  Off
>
> # ----- AUDIO CONFIGURATION -----------
>
> # -- AUDIO OUTPUT --
>
> # Chooses between three possible sound output systems:
> #       "oss"   - Open Sound System
> #       "alsa"  - Advanced Linux Sound System
> #       "nas"   - Network Audio System
> #       "pulse" - PulseAudio
> # ALSA is default and recommended. The recent implementations
> # support mixing of multiple streams. OSS is only provided
> # for compatibility with architectures that do not include ALSA.
> # NAS is an audio server with higher level of control over
> # your audio stream, with the possibility to stream your audio
> # over the network to a different computer and other advanced
> # features. (The NAS backend is not very well tested however.)
> # PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems.
> #
>
> # AudioOutputMethod "pulse,alsa"
>
> # What ALSA device to use when Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is
> # chosen for the audio output.
>
> #AudioALSADevice "default"
>
> # -- PulseAudio parameters --
>
> #AudioPulseServer "default"
>
> # Maximum length of the buffer
>
> #AudioPulseMaxLength -1
>
> # Target length of the buffer
> # The server tries to assure that at least FestivalPulseTargetLength
> # bytes are always available in the buffer
>
> #AudioPulseTargetLength 4410
>
> # Pre-buffering
> # The server does not start with playback before at least
> # FestivalPulsePrebuffering bytes are available in the buffer
>
> #AudioPulsePreBuffering -1
>
> # Minimum request
> # The server does not request less than FestivalPulseMinRequest bytes
> # from the client, instead waits until the buffer is free enough to
> # request more bytes at once
>
> #AudioPulseMinRequest -1
>
> # -- OSS parameters --
>
> # What OSS device to use when Open Sound System is
> # chosen for the audio output.
>
> #AudioOSSDevice "/dev/dsp"
>
> # -- NAS parameters --
>
> # Route to the Network Audio System server when NAS
> # was chosen for the audio output. Note that NAS
> # server doesn't need to run on your machine,
> # you can use it also over network (for instance
> # when working on remote machines).
>
> #AudioNASServer "tcp/localhost:5450"
>
>
>
> # -----OUTPUT MODULES CONFIGURATION-----
>
> # Each AddModule line loads an output module.
> #  Syntax: AddModule "name" "binary" "configuration" "logfile"
> #  - name is the name under which you can acces this module
> #  - binary is the path to the binary executable of this module,
> #    either relative (to lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/) or absolute
> #  - configuration is the path to the config file of this module,
> #    either relative (to etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/) or absolute
>
> AddModule "espeak"       "sd_espeak"   "espeak.conf"
> #AddModule "festival"     "sd_festival"  "festival.conf"
> #AddModule "flite"        "sd_flite"     "flite.conf"
> #AddModule "ivona"     "sd_ivona"    "ivona.conf"
> #AddModule "espeak-generic" "sd_generic" "espeak-generic.conf"
> #AddModule "espeak-mbrola-generic" "sd_generic" "espeak-mbrola-generic.conf"
> #AddModule "swift-generic" "sd_generic" "swift-generic.conf"
> #AddModule "epos-generic" "sd_generic"   "epos-generic.conf"
> #AddModule "dtk-generic"  "sd_generic"   "dtk-generic.conf"
> AddModule "ibmtts"       "sd_ibmtts"    "ibmtts.conf"
> #AddModule "cicero"        "sd_cicero"     "cicero.conf"
>
> # DO NOT REMOVE the following line unless you have
> # a specific reason -- this is the fallback output module
> # that is only used when no other modules are in use
> AddModule "dummy"         "sd_dummy"      ""
>
> # The output module testing doesn't actually connect to anything. It
> # outputs the requested commands to standard output and reads
> # responses from stdandard input. This way, Speech Dispatcher's
> # communication with output modules can be tested easily.
>
> # AddModule "testing"
>
> # The DefaultModule selects which output module is the default.  You
> # must use one of the names of the modules loaded with AddModule.
>
> DefaultModule ibmtts
>
> # The LanguageDefaultModule selects which output modules are prefered
> # for specified languages.
>
> #LanguageDefaultModule "en"  "espeak"
> #LanguageDefaultModule "cs"  "festival"
> #LanguageDefaultModule "es"  "festival"
>
> # -----CLIENT SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION-----
>
> # Here you can include the files with client-specific configuration
> # for different types of clients. They must contain one or more sections
> with
> # this structure:
> #     BeginClient "emacs:*"
> #          DefaultPunctuationMode "some"
> #          ...and/or some other settings
> #     EndClient
> # The parameter of BeginClient tells Speech Dispatcher to which clients
> # it should apply this settings (it does glob-style matching, you can use
> # * to match any number of characters and ? to match one character)
>
> # There are some sample client settings
>
> Include "/etc/speech-dispatcher/clients/*.conf"
> Include "clients/*.conf"
>
> # This line below is to enable autospawning, without breaking everything
> else read by dotconf.
> # AutoSpawn
>
> What is the problem in my system?
>
> Thank you for your help, and sorry for my mistakes.
>
> Norbert
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