Re: Gnopernicus error during startup

[Adi Dascal <ad baum ro>]

Hi Kenny,

What you see is NOT an error, but a warning message and should NOT generate 
crashes or hold you from using gnopernicus (hopefully ;-) ).

The warning appears because you are using - I suppose - festival  driver, and 
it means that gnopernicus is trying to deal with a TTS engine that does NOT 
have speech markers. (we should make the warning message understanable for 
the user, indeed).
To make a statement : Gnopernicus is supporting and will support TTS engines 
that support AT LEAST "end of speech" markers.

So, the warning that you are seeing is because gnopernicus is trying to deal 
with a voice (kevin or kal from festival driver ) that does NOT fulfill the 
above requirements. There are 2 bugs on this issue (107638 for gnopernicus 
and 107815 for gnome-speech, the first one depending on the second) and I 
hope that the solution of these two will make gnopernicus not to generate 
this message, ASAP.

To conclude : This problem is an issue for gnome-speech and gnopernicus and 
the implications and a workaround for them are described in the README file 
from gnopernicus sources:
<snip from README>
NOTE1

	It is NOT recommended to use voices from festival together with viavoice
	or FreeTTS voices because the first type of voices don't support speech
	markers. The lack of the markers implicates that not the entire presentation
	chunk will be spoken.
	If you STILL want to use festival voices you can, BUT they should be
	the same voice (ex Kevin for all voices that should present a role OR
	these voices should be at the end of the chunk).
	Example:
	if the presentation chunk for push-button looks like this:
	    %name<voice=name>%
	    %role<voice=role>%
	    %?shortcut?"shortcut":""<voice=system>?%
	    %shortcut<voice=shortcut>%
	make sure that you use a similar combination:
    	    name voice	- Kevin | Kal | ViaVoice voice | ViaVoice voice | 
Viavoice/FreeTTS
	    role voice	- Kevin | Kal | Viavoice voice | ViaVoice voice | 
Viavoice/FreeTTS
	    system voice- Kevin | Kal | Kevin	       | Kal/ViaVoice   | 
Viavoice/FreeTTS
  	    system voice- Kevin | Kal | Kevin	       | Kal            | 
Viavoice/FreeTTS

	THIS IS TEMPORARY AND SHOULD BE SOLVED SOON (in gnopernicus/gnome-speech).
</snip from README>

Thanks for reporting the problem.

HTH && Best regards,
Adi Dascal
BAUM Engineering, Romania 


On Wednesday 09 April 2003 19:05, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.  I am trying to use the Debian Gnopernicus package.  When
> Gnopernicus starts to load, I get the following error
>
> **GNOPERNICUS-WARNING**spgs.c:81
>         Exception "Unknown CORBA exception id:
> 	'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/NO_IMPLEMENT:1.0'" occured at line 429.
>
> Does anyone know what this means?
>
> I decided to get the latest CVS version of Gnopernicus to see if
> the problem was fixed, but I still get the same error.
>
> 	Thanks in advance.
> 	  Kenny
>
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