Re: Gnopernicus - No speech

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 10:31, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Sharon,
> 
> On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 20:24, Sharon D Snider wrote:
> > Yesterday, I upgraded to Red Hat 7.3 and the latest version of
> > Garnome/GNOME2.
> 
> 	Great.
> 
> >  Then, following the instructions on the Baum site I
> > installed gnome-mag, gnome-speech, and gnopernicus. ViaVoice is installed
> > for TTS. I have included the export information from the go-gnome.sh in my
> > .bash_profile. When I run Gnopernicus the GUI appears and the terminal
> > displays the following information from start to exit, but I do not have
> > speech. I have confirmed that my speech settings are set to ViaVoice. In
> > General settings Braille and magnifier are not selected, only speech. Does
> > anyone have any idea what I might be missing?
> 
> 	I _believe_ that no activation of speech stuff is done; thus you need
> to ensure that you run the viavoice speech server  beforehand;

This isn't necessary for viavoice, only for festival (this is a known
limitation of the current versions of gnopernicus and gnome-speech, and
the long-term plan is to have gnome-speech start 'festival' if it's not
already running).  However the plan is for gnopernicus to use
gnome-speech for all its speech services.  The message you see indicates
that no gnome-speech services are being found.  This is either a bug in
gnopernicus or it indicates that something is wrong with your
gnome-speech installation or your GNOME stack.

I suspect that you may not have installed gnome-speech; previous
versions of gnopernicus didn't require it but the latest one might, and
at any rate the non-gnome-speech TTS service support in gnopernicus is
deprecated and slated for removal in favor of a pure gnome-speech
approach.

You might try choosing 'viavoice' from the gnopernicus speech service
selection dialog; if that still doesn't work then it suggests that the
direct-to-viavoice support is already gone.  The preferred solution is
to get gnome-speech working.

best regards,

Bill


> personally I've never use vv, only festival - which works fine when used
> through gnome-speech [ but seemingly not directly from gnopernicus -
> which is most odd ].
> 
> 	The best thing to do is perhaps add debugging stuff to gnome-speech's [
> or gnopernicus' ] sound intialization stuff. Sadly robustness wise - and
> in terms of nice UI when things fail gnopernicus needs substantial work,
> 
> 	HTH,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 
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