speech-dispatcher problem

Tue Sep 18 08:12:40 EDT 2012

Wow, please Bohdan release it as soon as possible!

In the meantime, indeed I'd like to test the current Speechd-up on
Gentoo. For those who got it to work under Debian and Ubuntu, does it
work with Alsa or PulseAudio only? Also, is it enough to git clone the
current version and run it, or some undocumented steps are required?

Thanks,
Cleverson

2012/9/18, Bohdan R. Rau <ethanak at polip.com>:
>  On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:52:39 -0400, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
>> I have a working version of speechd-up, I think I got it from
>> git://github.com/williamh/speechd-up.git  -- I don't know if its the
>> latest version, but it works fine -- even does indexing.  You can use
>> any voice, but it works better if the module has a speech dispatcher
>> driver.
>
>  Some months ago I started with my private replacement for speechd-up.
>  Program is not finished yet, but  has some important differences:
>
>  1) does not use configuration file (all parameters may be given in
>  command line)
>  2) can change voice (module, synthesis voice or even language) on the
>  fly. Small script adds two new keys (Spk-a and spk-s) to switch voices
>  (up to 8 predefined voices)
>  3) automatically corrects speakup character tables for use in given
>  encoding/language
>  4) automatically loads translated speakup tables
>  5) starts as root and drops privileges to predefined user, so
>  speech-dispacher never starts as root.
>  6) keeps correct parameters (rate, pitch, volume etc.) when reconnect
>  to speech dispatcher.
>
>  The only unimplemented feature is indexing (I don't know how to test
>  it).
>
>  I personally use it on my netbook (I'm sight
>
>>
>> Cleverson Casarin Uliana <clever92000 at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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