[Kde-accessibility] jovie and mbrola

[Bob Stia]

On Friday 21 December 2012 12:36:10 guenter wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
>
> what does your speech-dispacher logfile say? This should be in your home
> directory ~/.speech-dispatcher/log/ .

Hi Guenter

My speech-dispatcher logfile says exactly as yours, shown below.

> 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). 

No, myfestival log has one line in it, "festival_client: connect to server 
failed" My dummy log and ny espeak log are empty.  Wht??

> The festival service seems to run here: 

No. see below
>
> /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

I don't hav a etc/init.d/festival status. U do have a festival but it appears 
to be a bash script
>
> 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.

espeak also works for me, but with those horrible practically unintelligible 
voices. That is whyI want to get the mbrola or better yet the CMU voices 
working.  You see, I am extremely sight impaired so this is importaant for 
me. For the same reasons, please excuse the typos which I have diffuculty 
seeing.

This problem is on SuSE 12.2 with KDE4.9. I strongly suspect that we are not 
the only ones running up against this, but how do e get someone to pay 
attention to this??

The crazy thing is that I also alternatively run SiSE 11.3 with KDE3.5 which 
uses KTTS and sees festival but not espeak. I cannpt get the mbrola or CMU 
voices working there either.
>
> Im only a user of speech output, not a developer.
>
I also. Merry Christmas to all.

Regards, Bob