[Kde-accessibility] jovie and mbrola

[guenter]

Am 20.12.2012 04:04, schrieb Bob Stia:
> On Monday 17 December 2012 19:21:02 you wrote:
>> Ok, that looks like a regular speech dispatcher setup, also, espeak and
>> festival are enabled.  Do you know if festival is running?  I have it
>> installed here on my ubuntu system, but it doesn't seem to run itself as a
>> system service.  If you can try "spd-conf --test-festival" from a terminal
>> and see if speech-dispatcher can see festival that would help.  I'm betting
>> it can't see it since it's not running and that's why it doesn't appear as
>> an option in Jovie.
>>
> Jeremy,
>
> I assume you got my reply frpm your last message where I told ypu I started 
> Festival manually then opened Jovie and still could not find it. I am 
> thinking that is because I have Jovie autostarted and Festival must start 
> first ?  
>
> I was going to autostart Festival also but I get several choices. festivak, 
> festival_client, festival_server, andfestival_server_control.  Which one 
> should I use and then make sure festival starts first?
>
Hi Bob,

what does your speech-dispacher logfile say? This should be in your home
directory ~/.speech-dispatcher/log/ .
I have problems too with festival and I read in the log.
 [Fri Dec 21 18:16:05 2012 : 323218] speechd:  Initializing output
module festival with binary
/usr/lib64/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_festival and configuration
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules//festival.conf
[Fri Dec 21 18:16:05 2012 : 323289] speechd:   Output module is logging
to file XXX/festival.log
[Fri Dec 21 18:16:05 2012 : 323807] speechd:  Module festival loaded.
[Fri Dec 21 18:16:05 2012 : 332224] speechd:  Error: Broken pipe to module.
[Fri Dec 21 18:16:05 2012 : 332273] speechd:  Output module terminated
abnormally, probably crashed.
[Fri Dec 21 18:16:05 2012 : 332283] speechd: ERROR: Can't initialize
audio in output module, see reason above.
[Fri Dec 21 18:16:05 2012 : 332302] speechd:   Couldn't load specified
output module

The festival.log is clean(empty). The festival service seems to run here:

/etc/init.d/festival status
redirecting to systemctl
festival.service - LSB: festival daemon providing full text-to-speech system
          Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/festival)
          Active: active (running) since Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:10:33
+0100; 4min 6s ago
         Process: 20043 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/festival start
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/festival.service
                  └ 20053 /usr/bin/festival --libdir / --uid festival
--chroot /usr/share/festival/ --server

espeak works fine for me in German. I use orca instead of jovie. But
this should not matter. The speech-dispacher problem with festival
should be the same.

Im only a user of speech output, not a developer.

Greetings,
 Günter

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openSuse 12.1 64 | KDE Development Platform: 4.9.4 "release 5"
festival: Festival Speech Synthesis System: 2.1:release November 2010
speech-dispatcher 0.7.1