Well you might want to see if the festival server is even running. stop speech-dispatcher and then try this command as root. "nohup festival --server &" then restart speech-dispatcher with it configured to use festival and try your spd-say command again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:33 PM 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 > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3180 (20080612) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > >
