Re: Gnopernicus error message.

[Peter Korn <peter korn sun com>]

Hi Thomas,

I wonder if you have a network configuration problem.  festival alone doesn't 
make a network connection, but when you are using festival in client/server 
mode (which is the case when you are using it with gnome-speech and 
gnopernicus), then you may be running into the same problem I was (and just 
fixed).

To verify this, run 'festival --server' in one process, and 'festival_client' 
in another.  Check out what status/error messages you are getting in stdout 
of the 'festival --server' process.

If things are working properly, you'll get messages in stdout of 'festival 
--server' like the following:

 server    <date> <time> : Festival server started on port 1314
 client(1) <date> <time> : accepted from localhost

In the 'festival_client' stdin, type "(SayText "Hello")" and see if you hear 
anything.


On the other hand, if your network is misconfigured, you'll get a message in 
stdout of 'festival_client' along the lines of:

 socket: gethostbyname failed

or some other error in stdout of 'festival --server', likewise indicating a 
failure to connect.


To fix this, try using a static IP address, and make sure that your 
/etc/hosts contains an entry for your local machine, fully qualified, 
specifying that IP address.  That was my problem, and after I cleaned that up 
everything worked fine.


Good luck!


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi, it looks like Bill is right. Adi asked me to write down the exact
> message I got, and now test-speech fails on both festival and viavoice.
> So it would appear the problem Nath and I have been experiencing must be in
> the gnome-speech libraries.
> That's rather strange that it would give an activation success one time, and
> activation failed upon restart.
> Now, I am only getting activation failed. If you want a copy of the
> activation failed messages let me know, and I'll send them onto you.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>
> To: Thomas Ward <slingshooter valkyrie net>
> Cc: <gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Gnopernicus error message.
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:34, Thomas Ward wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, Bill. The test-speech has produced no sound. Simply tests
> gnome-speech,
>
> > > and gives a success  message on festival and a failed message on
> viavoice.
>
> > OK, this is a "false positive" then, since the test program normally
> > causes a short message to be spoken, "Hello from festival speech
> > synthesis" or something like that.
> >
> > Perhaps Adi's suggestion will work for you.  It seems you have found a
> > significant bug in the startup/test program, since of course it should
> > not "succeed" if speech cannot be generated.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
> > > Festival by itself seams to be working fine when I launch the server,
> and
>
> > > use festival --tts filename
> > > and it reads text files to me.
> > > Any ideas what to try now?
>
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