Thanks Charles, If I'm not mistaken, Milan Zamazal prepares the Debian packages for Speech Dispatcher, so I'm forwarding the 2nd solution to him. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: two problems installing software speech with speakup Date: Thursday 29 June 2006 17:15 From: Charles Hallenbeck <chuckh@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Hi people, Maybe I should have called this two solutions instead of two problems. I am putting together a Debian system for a friend, patterned largely after my own, which is working well. But on the new machine, I have had a couple of unexpected problems with the software. They turned out to be subtle, so it might be well to share their solutions. <snip> 2. Actually I have installed flite, festival, espeak, and dectalk 5.0 on each system. But on the new system, only three drivers were loaded by speech-dispatcher. Festival failed to load at boot time. On my own system, all four loaded at boot time. After bootup, festival appeared to be running okay, speech-dispatcher was running okay, all four speech systems talked okay using their own "say" commands, and finally, when speech-dispatcher was restarted, it picked up all four drivers as expected. It was only on bootup that festival failed to load. Solution: Examining the /etc/rc2.d directories on my own system as well as on the new system, they each contained these links: S20festival S20speech-dispatcher But on my own system, numerous other similar links came between them alphabetically, which means they were executed after festival and before speech-dispatcher. On the new system, only one or two other links were shown between the two. It seems that speech-dispatcher was executed too soon after festival, and thus failed to find the software. I changed the priority of speech-dispatcher from 20 to 81 so that plenty of other startup scripts had to be executed after festival and before speech-dispatcher, and it now works fine, recognizing all four drivers at bootup. Chuck -- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
