speech-dispatcher-git: Spawn Failed

[Gregory Nowak]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 07:50:50AM -0500, Rob wrote:
> So now that I have speech-dispatcher installed, when I try to test it, I get a rather odd error message:
> spd-say "hi"
> Failed to connect to Speech Dispatcher:
> Error: Can't connect to unix socket /run/user/1001/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock: No such file or directory. Autospawn: Autospawn failed. Speech Dispatcher refused to start with error code, stating this as a reason:

You've gone through /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, and have
adjusted it according to your setup, right? Does spd-say work as root?
Do you have a
$HOME/.cache/speech-dispatcher/log/speech-dispatcher.log? If yes,
anything out of the ordinary in there?

> When I looked at
> grep speech-dispatcher /var/log/daemon.log
> All I saw was:
> Jul  9 05:36:44 trainserve speech-dispatcher[4767]: speech-dispatcher disabled; edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher.
> So I went in there and it says
> run=no
> So I changed that to yes. No go; same error.

Unless you know you have a reason to run speech-dispatcher system
wide, I'd suggest leaving that as run=no

Greg


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