Don't forget to start festival as a server (the --server option, or have
festival start as a server on startup, if using a rpm package it probably
comes with the start script).
Any way I would suggest espeak rather than festival.
From
Michael Whapples
Gary Cramblitt writes:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 18:20, Guy Schlosser wrote:
>> Hey all, the sound problem is fixed. I have a question though, and
>> it has to do with Festival and Speech-dispatcher. I installed S-D
>> 0.61 from yum, using the method Hynek outlined in a previous message,
>> and when I do spd-say "hello", I get an error message that says
>> "connection refused." Do I have to put festival in some kind of
>> daemon mode or something? If anyone has had this issue and can give
>> me some pointers for solving it, that would be awesome. I think I'm
>> gonna install Espeak, and see if I can't get it working with
>> that. Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> From the Speech Dispatcher INSTALL file:
>
> ----
> Installing Festival Speech Dispatcher interface:
> ================================================
>
> You need to install the new version of festival-freebsoft-utils (0.3
> or higher).
>
> Please make sure that Festival server_access_list configuration
> variable and your /etc/hosts.conf are set properly. server_access_list
> must contain the symbolic name of your machine and this name must be
> defined in /etc/hosts.conf and point to your IP address. You can test
> if this is set correctly by trying to connect to the port Festival
> server is running on via an ordinary telnet. If you are not rejected,
> it probably works.
> ----
>
> On my system (Debian), file /etc/festival.scm contains the following:
>
> ----
> ;; Any site-wide Festival initialization can be added to this file.
> ;; It is marked as a configuration file, so your changes will be saved
> ;; across upgrades of the Festival package.
>
> (set! server_access_list '("localhost"))
> ----
>
> and my /etc/hosts file contains:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost newton
>
> "newton" being my machine's host name.
>
> --
> Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
>
>
>
