speechd-up not working on text console

Okash Khawaja okash.khawaja at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 02:48:33 EDT 2017


Hey Chrys,

Yes running it as root. This might actually suit my scenario better.
I'll try and see how it goes.

Cheers,
Okash

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:17 AM, chrys <chrys at linux-a11y.org> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> i know its already fixed :) but say my little penny:
> did you run it as root? does speechd-up require root?
> if it does i see similar issues while my development in fenrir using
> speech-dispatcher. running spd-conf as root and user and select explicit
> pulseaudio as output solves that issues (if it is the same problem).
> running speech-dispatcher via pulse on root does also require some pulse
> setup to stream the "root" sound to the normal user.
> i create a script that would do that.
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrys87/fenrir/master/tools/configure_pulse.sh
>
> not sure if that makes sense for your issue. i just see this here on many
> fenrir setups (using the speech-dispatcher driver).
> cheers chrys
>
> Am 15.08.2017 um 09:33 schrieb Okash Khawaja:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Changing from pulse to alsa worked. Thanks all very much for help!
>>
>> Still wonder why spd-say can do spd_open while speechd-up fails. May be
>> something check later.
>>
>> Okash
>>
>> On 15 Aug 2017 7:49 am, "Okash Khawaja" <okash.khawaja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Okay I'll give it a go.
>>>
>>> Thanks ,
>>> Okash
>>>
>>> On 14 Aug 2017 8:03 pm, "John Covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, my setup was speech-dispatcher as a system rather than a user
>>> service and pulse audio was not involved -- see if that combination
>>> works for you.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:40:17 -0400,
>>> Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Speech dispatcher is installed per user under /usr /local /... So is
>>>
>>> speechd-up. Yes I'm using pulse audio.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Okash
>>>>
>>>> On 14 Aug 2017 9:28 am, "John Covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Is speech dispatcher system wide or for each user? Also, are you
>>>>   using pulse audio?
>>>>
>>>>   On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:00:05 -0400,
>>>>   Okash Khawaja wrote:
>>>>   >
>>>>   > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>>   > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>>   > Hi,
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Sorry about the delay.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>>   > Exactly
>>>>   >
>>>>   > spd-say works from text console, as does festival and espeak.
>>>>   >
>>>>   > Thanks,
>>>>   > Okash
>>>>   >
>>>>   > On 13 Aug 2017 7:00 pm, "John Covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>   >
>>>>   > I wonder if its an audio problem. In a text console if you have
>>>>   > espeak installed, does spdsay do anything?
>>>>   >
>>>>   > On Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:17:16 -0400,
>>>>   > Chris Brannon wrote:
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > > Thanks that worked! But still no sound when run from text
>>>
>>> console. Works fine from inside GUI.
>>>>
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > So you can start speechd-up in the GUI and it will work?
>>>>   > > But if you start it in the text console, it won't?
>>>>   > > Does spd-say work from a text console at all?
>>>>   > >
>>>>   > > -- Chris
>>>>   >
>>>>   > --
>>>>   > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>>   > How do
>>>>   > you spend it?
>>>>   >
>>>>   > John Covici
>>>>   > covici at ccs.covici.com
>>>>   >
>>>>
>>>>   --
>>>>   Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
>>>>   How do
>>>>   you spend it?
>>>>
>>>>   John Covici
>>>>   covici at ccs.covici.com
>>>>
>>> --
>>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>>> How do
>>> you spend it?
>>>
>>>           John Covici
>>>           covici at ccs.covici.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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