speech dispatcher with speakup

Thu Jun 3 12:12:16 EDT 2010

Hi.
The error about not finding config files when speech-dispatcher is running as a system wide
service is a bug caused when speech-dispatcher was updated
to support config files in the user's home dir.  You can ignore it, but
it would be nice if it was fixed.
Are you sure swift and Deqtalk work with your current sound card?
The dtk-generic.conf and swift.conf files I have aren't good since they let the say
and swift programs talk directly to the sound card.  I have a sblive in this box, so it
doesn't matter.  It would be better to modify the files to output wav files and use aplay.
I had versions of both files that did this at one time, but don't know what happened to them.

          Kenny

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:47:49PM +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> Hello!
> Yes, it is that I do too, and I run as a system service.
> but it says that config files are not found anyway.
> Is there a plase in the files where I can specify where dispatcher
> looks for config files?
> Also, could you please send your swift and dectalk files to me
> privately, so that I can get this to work?
> /Kristoffer
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt"
> <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 3:39 PM
> Subject: Re: speech dispatcher with speakup
> 
> 
> Hi.  I don't run speech-dispatcher as a user.  I run it system wide.
> With that
> config, I don't have any problems using Deqtalk or Swift.
> Never used spd-conf, so can't help with that.
> You might need to ask on ubuntu-accessibility.
> I believe Ubuntu is the distro that created that
> program and wants users to run speech-dispatcher from there home dir.
> Spd-conf does exist in the Debian package, but I just edit config
> files in /etc/speech-dispatcher.
> 
>          Kenny
> 
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:03:56PM +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> >Hello!
> >Ok, I got speechd-up working at first.
> >Then I wanted to implement support for both swift aand dectalk.
> >I messed around very much, but didn't get software dectalk to work.
> >Then suddenly, I get errors that a config file isn't found in my
> >home directory.
> >when running spd-conf it seems to work, but when I press enter after
> >the final question I get a very much python errors, and that it
> >can't find my config file.
> >What is this?
> >speech dispatcher doesn't say anything either.
> >/Kristoffer
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt"
> ><kenny at hittsjunk.net>
> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 1:51 PM
> >Subject: Re: speech dispatcher with speakup
> >
> >
> >Hi.  The current state of speech-dispatcher speechd-up and the
> >opentts fork is confusing.
> >Speech-dispatcher exists in Debian, but speechd-up and the opentts
> >fork appear to only
> >be available in Ubuntu.
> >For now, I use speech-dispatcher for Orca and espeak for speakup.
> >
> >         Kenny
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:32:02PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> >>Sorry, thought it came from Debian, but I am running Ubuntu Jaunty which
> >>has the package under the name of speechd-up.
> >>Regards, Willem
> >>
> >>
> >>On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi.  Although speech-dispatcher exists in Debian, speechd-up doesn't.
> >>> This is according to apt-cache search speech on a box running
> >>Debian > Sid.
> >>>
> >>>           Kenny
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:13:18PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> >>> > Once speech-dispatcher is running, you just run speechd-up -d
> >>> > There is a fork of speech-dispatcher and speechd-up under the name
> >>> > opentts.
> >>> > The programs have different names, but are the maintained
> >>versions of > > the
> >>> > mensioned programs.
> >>> >
> >>> > The debian based distros have packages for both speech-dispatcher and
> >>> > speechd-up.
> >>> > HTH, Willem
> >>> >
> >>> > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > > Hello!
> >>> > > How do I use speakup with speech dispatcher?
> >>> > > I used to use speechd-up, but that was a long time ago, and
> >>now that > > > seems to be abandonware.
> >>> > > /Kristoffer
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Kristoffer Gustafsson
> >>> > > Trelleborgsvägen 1b
> >>> > > 514 33 Tranemo
> >>> > >
> >>> > > tel: 0325-42093
> >>> > > mobil: 073-8226473
> >>> > > e-post: kg84 at dreamwld.com
> >>> > > Eller
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