On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:19:27AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I'm down to a strange pattern on one of my boxes when it comes to > launching Speech Dispatcher, speakup and speechd_up in that order. It > basically comes down to this. dispatcher and speakup are loading > correctly; that is, /proc/speakup/synth_name is properly set to > softsynth. If I do this sequence from any shell script, speechd_up > logs an error about [y being an invalid command or something and I get > no speech. Speechd_up is a client of Speech Dispatcher. Speech Dispatcher is something as a server that provides an uniform API for the clients that want to use software synthesis. So, if you start speechd-up from the script directly after Speech Dispatcher, Speech Dispatcher doesn't have enough time to fully start and speechd-up can't connect to it. You need to add something as a one seccond pause before starting dispatchers clients directly after starting the server itself. A better approach, I think, is to put Speech Dispatcher somewhere in the init scripts and then only start or stop speechd-up manually. See "man sleep". With Regards, Hynek Hanke http://www.freebsoft.org
