Re: no speech out of gnopernicus except welcome

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Janina/John:

The gnome-speech "*.server" files don't (or shouldn't !!!) get recreated
on launch, only on install.  If they are getting re-created then
something odd is going on.

We plan to add an option to gnome-speech so that only drivers for
text-to-speech engines that are presently installed on your system are
created.  But in some cases this can be difficult to reliably detect, so
the interim solution (which ought to be documented in the README if it
isn't already) is to remove or rename the unneeded/unavailable .server
files.

- Bill

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 12:46, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Yes, delete them all. They get recreated the next time you launch.
> 
> John covici writes:
> > From: John covici <covici ccs covici com>
> > 
> > Do I delete all of them, including the festival one -- I do have
> > festival, but it generated one  more -- one for Dec Talk (I
> > do have the hardware),  -- the servers for gnome speech seem to be as
> > found in /usr/lib/bonobo/servers:
> > GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Dectalk.server
> > GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival.server
> > These are the ones gnome_speech installed.
> > 
> > 
> > on Monday 04/14/2003 Janina Sajka(janina afb net) wrote
> >  > Do rm rf .gconf
> >  > 
> >  > and look for the speech servers for Gnopernicus somewhere under /usr. I'm sorry, I don't have an installation on my new system yet to point to these directly for you,
> >  > but there will be a *Server* file for each supported speech system there. You need to delete these and restart gnome and then gnopernicus.
> >  > 
> >  > John covici writes:
> >  > > From: John covici <covici ccs covici com>
> >  > > 
> >  > > I have the festival server running -- starts at boot time and I hear
> >  > > the welcome message in festival.  I did delete the .gconf from the
> >  > > home directory, but it didn't change anything.
> >  > > 
> >  > > I guess we need to make sure that gnopernicus wants to talk to
> >  > > festival in its configuration files.  HOw do I do that from a text
> >  > > console?
> >  > > 
> >  > > on Friday 04/11/2003 Janina Sajka(janina afb net) wrote
> >  > >  > Did you start the Festival Server first?
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > On Red Hat it's festival_server & typically.
> >  > >  > Do a pidof to be sure.
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > If that doesn't work, it's probably a matter of telling Gnopernicus to talk to festival. If gnopernicus has already decided to talk to something else, I
> >  > >  > don't know how you change that without the gui. What I did the other day was to rm -rf $HOME/.gconf and rm -rf the actual speech servers somewhere under
> >  > >  > /usr -- sorry, I can't tell exactly where as I've just gone RH 9 and don't have gnome and gnopernicus up yet.
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > NOTE to Sun & Baum: We will need a console tool for setting default speech conditions--synth to use, speed, etc. If a user breaks that, we can't expect
> >  > >  > them to fix it in the gui.
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > Some more issues:
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > Are you using the Sun Java SDK? Also, did you grab the Java Access Bridge and compile it?
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > You might want to be sure you're not using gcj.
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > John covici writes:
> >  > >  > > From: John covici <covici ccs covici com>
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > Well, I got the cvs version of gnome-speech and it generated servers
> >  > >  > > for dectalk, (I have the hardware) and festival (I have the festival
> >  > >  > > server).  I erased the dectalk one, but I still have no speech out of
> >  > >  > > gnopernicus -- here are the messages I get when gnopernicus starts:
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > **********************
> >  > >  > > * SCREEN READER CORE *
> >  > >  > > **********************
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > **WARNING**
> >  > >  > >         Exception "Unknown CORBA exception id:
> >  > >  > >         'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/NO_IMPLEMENT:1.0'" occured at line 429.
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > **MESSAGE**
> >  > >  > >         speech initialization succeded
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > Thanks.
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > on Friday 04/11/2003 Adi Dascal(ad baum ro) wrote
> >  > >  > >  > Hi Jhon,
> >  > >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > >  > Please see comments on this location (looks like is the same problem):
> >  > >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > >  > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110536
> >  > >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > >  > Easiest way to solve this is to reinstall gnome-speech and follow instruction 
> >  > >  > >  > from the above location.
> >  > >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > >  > HTH && Best regards,
> >  > >  > >  > Adi Dascal
> >  > >  > >  > BAUM Engineering
> >  > >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > >  > On Friday 11 April 2003 10:33, John Covici wrote:
> >  > >  > >  > > Hi.  After getting cvs versions of gnopernicus, atk at-spi and of
> >  > >  > >  > > course the famous gtk-doc, I cannot get gnopernicus to say anything
> >  > >  > >  > > after the welcome message -- I can run gnome-panel, and nothing
> >  > >  > >  > > happens hotting tab, alt, arrow keys and I get nothing.  It always
> >  > >  > >  > > says welcome to gnopernicus, so its running and the message says
> >  > >  > >  > > speech initialization successful on the text console, but that's all
> >  > >  > >  > > I get.
> >  > >  > >  > >
> >  > >  > >  > > Well, what do I do from here?
> >  > >  > >  > >
> >  > >  > >  > > Thanks.
> >  > >  > > 
> >  > >  > > -- 
> >  > >  > >          John Covici
> >  > >  > >          covici ccs covici com
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> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > -- 
> >  > >  > 	
> >  > >  > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> >  > >  > 				Technology Research and Development
> >  > >  > 				Governmental Relations Group
> >  > >  > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >  > >  > 
> >  > >  > Email: janina afb net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> >  > > 
> >  > > -- 
> >  > >          John Covici
> >  > >          covici ccs covici com
> >  > 
> >  > -- 
> >  > 	
> >  > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> >  > 				Technology Research and Development
> >  > 				Governmental Relations Group
> >  > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >  > 
> >  > Email: janina afb net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> > 
> > -- 
> >          John Covici
> >          covici ccs covici com
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> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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