speech-dispatcher problem

[Rob Hudson]

I did manage to fix it. It appears the debian package was broken, because 
once I installed from tarball and ran the spd-conf command, and then:
speech-dispatcher -C /usr/local/etc/speech-dispatcher
it worked fine. I now have it running with speechd-up and I am fixing to 
make an initScript.
With the debian package, it couldn't find my audio device and failed to 
initialize for some reason. i have no idea how to fix it, so I did
apt-get purge speech-dispatcher
and then started all over again from source.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cleverson Casarin Uliana" <clever92000 at yahoo.com.br>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher problem


> Hi, I'm also interested in this question. AFAIC, to be able to use other 
> voices than ESpeak, you need a piece of software called Speechd-up. 
> However, last year (2011) when I asked whether it was available for Gentoo 
> users, it got an answer that it was broken. I asked recently whether it's 
> still broken, with no answer til now. I'd also like to use it, in case 
> it's functional.
>
> Cheers
> Cleverson
>
> Em 16/09/2012 16:34, Rob Hudson escreveu:
>> I'm trying to get speakup working with speech-dispatcehr and voxin. 
>> However it won't connect and, in speechd.log, I see this:
>> I am running speech-dispatcher 0.7.1 and Debian Squeeze, with Voxin-0.42.
>>
>>> From /var/log/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcehr.log
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 525783] speechd: Speech Dispatcher Logging to
>> file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//speech-dispatcher.log
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 525903] speechd: Initializing output module
>> ibmtts with binary /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_ibmtts and
>> configuration /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules//ibmtts.conf
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 525916] speechd: Output module is logging to
>> file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//ibmtts.log
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 526228] speechd: Module ibmtts loaded.
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 526393] speechd: ERROR: Bad syntax from 
>> output
>> module ibmtts 1
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 526466] speechd: Initializing output module
>> dummy with binary /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_dummy and
>> configuration (null)
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 526480] speechd: Output module is logging to
>> file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//dummy.log
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 526744] speechd: Module dummy loaded.
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 531115] speechd: LINE here:|304 CANT LIST
>> VOICES|
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 531140] speechd: Module dummy started
>> sucessfully with message:
>> ---------------
>> Everything ok so far.
>> ---------------
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 531408] speechd: Configuration has been read
>> from "/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf"
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 531436] speechd: Speech Dispatcher Logging to
>> file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//speech-dispatcher.log
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 531458] speechd: Speech Dispatcher will use
>> local unix socket:
>> /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock
>> [Sat Sep 15 04:14:50 2012 : 533528] speechd: Speech Dispatcher started 
>> and
>> waiting for clients ...
>> Any idea what's happening here? I also noticed that, using the say tool 
>> in voxin's source tree, I have to do aoss ./say in order for the "hello 
>> world" message to be spoken. Could this be the problem?
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