[Kde-accessibility] jovie and mbrola

[Jeremy Whiting]

Yeah, I get the same error about Broken pipe to module for festival here.
Seems something broken between speech-dispatcher and it's festival module.


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:36 AM, guenter <guenter.k at arcor.de> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> 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
>
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