Is there anything useful in the logs under /var/log/speech-dispatcher? I haven't used festival for some time, but you may need to install festival-freebsoft utils. Alternatively, use espeak which is generally much more responsive than festival. HTH Alastair Irving -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield Sent: 20 June 2008 17:33 To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: a quick question Hello list, I've finally got everything up and running again, and have been doing some playing around. I'd like to get software speech going, so I can continue my origenal idea of compiling a kernel. I started reading docks, and got as far as speech-dispatcher I've installed it, and spd-say "Hello" just hangs. as well as using hello without the quotes. I've rebooted the service via init.d ./speech-dispatcher restart, and also changed the synths from flite to festival, and back again to make sure that it wasn't just the synth. Festival works perfect--I'm just having trouble communicating with the synth via spd-say. Any ideas why its hanging? The docs on getting software speech working with speakup was rather vague. I've also got an issue with ssh, that I thought may be able to be fixed here. When I'm compiling, reading nampages, etc I see a lot of euros a-circumflex marks all over. Is there something wrong with my terminal? Not sure why it's showing that. Thanks for the help in advance, Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler at tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
