lovely, seg fault Starting speech-dispatcher: ./speech-dispatcher: line 25: 12187 Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid $U SER --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON thanks for the idea though. it helped me find that error... need to figure out what the deal is. 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:42 PM Subject: Re: a quick question > 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 at tysdomain.com> > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 3204 (20080620) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >