speech dispatcher with speakup

Thu Jun 3 16:03:02 EDT 2010

The config file message is dumb, but harmless and it goes on to find
them in the correct place anyway.  I have had both the swift and dec
modules working, but swift does not do well in a normal console
environment, its much more suited to asterisk or some such where it just
plays a short phrase.

Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg84 at dreamwld.com> 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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