Re: gnopernicus - no speech

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

I'm getting a similar but not quite the same error- when I run
gnopernicus, I get 'welcome to gnopernicus' on brlmonitor and an
'Activation of server
OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.1 succeeded.' So.. I
/think/ things are installed correctly. But after that I get
'initializing driver... Driver initialization failed :-(.' Is that an
error caused by more installation problems? Possibly sound-server
issues? Any suggestions for diagnosis?

Luis


On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 17:04, Sharon D Snider wrote:
> It's finally working !!!! Thank you so much.
> I added the export path and reinstalled with the pre-fix you suggested.
> Started brlmonitor and then Gnopernicus and heard  "Welcome to
> Gnopernicus".
> 
> Sharon Snider
> Linux Information Development, Accessibility, and Usability
> IBM Linux Technology Services
> (512) 838-4127, T/L 678-4127
> 
> 
> 
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>                       Michael Meeks                                                                                              
>                       <michael ximian c        To:       Sharon D Snider/Austin/IBM IBMUS                                        
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>                                                Subject:  Re: gnopernicus - no speech                                             
>                       08/28/2002 03:37                                                                                           
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> 
> 
> Hi Sharon,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 20:49, Sharon D Snider wrote:
> > I have reinstalled the latest version of gnome-speech and it compiles
> > without error. I also installed Festival and have tried all 3 settings in
> > Gnopernicus (ViaVoice, Festival and Gnome-Speech) with the same results,
> 0
> > servers found. I ran brlmonitor and it functions properly on UDP port
> 7000.
> > I tried to locate the problem in Gnome-speech but have been unsuccessful.
> > If I execute the festival-tts-driver or the viavoice-tts-driver, I get
> the
> > following error:
> > ** ERROR **: Error registering speech synthesis driver.
> 
>              That comes from this code fragment.
> 
>   ret = bonobo_activation_active_server_register (
>                 obj_id,
>                 bonobo_object_corba_objref (bonobo_object (driver)));
> 
>   if (ret != Bonobo_ACTIVATION_REG_SUCCESS)
>     g_error ("Error registering speech synthesis driver.\n");
> 
>              Firstly; are you sure that you installed gnome-speech ? it's
> vital to
> have the '.server' file describing the location of that component in the
> right place ${libdir}/bonobo/servers typically.
> 
>              Secondly; are you sure that your bonobo-activation-server is
> pointing
> at the directory you installed it to ? to make sure add:
> 
>              export GNOME2_PATH=/usr:/usr/local
> 
>              to your default shell; [ /etc/bashrc or whatever in your home
> directory
> ].
> 
>              I'm assuming you installed to /usr/local - Indeed I did advise
> installing into the '/usr' prefix precisely to avoid this problem. This
> is done by configuring with './configure --prefix=/usr'.
> 
>              Then - you need to ensure that bonobo-activation-server
> (b-a-s) is
> re-started to inherit that environment variable; to do that - simply
> type 'bonobo-slay' [ this has the side-effect of killing pretty much
> everything to do with CORBA / bonobo ;-]. They should auto-restart
> mostly.
> 
>              Then you should be ready to go; if not test b-a-s by running:
> 
>               bonobo-activation-run-query \
>                          "repo_ids.has
> ('IDL:GNOME/Speech/SynthesisDriver:1.0')"
> 
>              I get:
> 
> number of results: 1
> OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.1
> 
>              You should get ViaVoice too I imagine.
> 
>              If you don't it's a b-a-s problem; so you need to repeat the
> above
> steps; perhaps re-configure / make clean / make install with the /usr
> prefix ; bonobo-slay etc. until it works.
> 
> > Any suggestions on what I can check in Gnome-Speech,  server
> connectivity,
> > etc. would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>              It's an activation problem - it's just a real shame that
> gnopernicus
> seems to ignore the fact that the activation of gnome-speech has failed,
> and not give useful feedback as to the probable cause; can you help fix
> that ? presumably you can find where the bonobo_activation_activate_
> (type) method is called in gnopernicus, add some error handling and a
> warning GtkMessageDialog to help people ?
> 
>              HTH,
> 
>                          Michael.
> 
> --
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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