Re: Speech has died - How do I discover the cause and fix?

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, Gena.
One thing I forgot to mention in my prier post is you can also simply remove
the extra speech drivers which you aren't planning on using.
I was having troubles earlier forcing gnopernicus to switch to Freetts, and
I solved the issue by removing the Dectalk and Festival speech drivers from
my /usr/lib/bonobo/server directory.
Once removed gnopernicus started up with Freetts on all my user accounts. So
that might be an option to concidder if you want to force gnopernicus to
only use one particular synth.
Hth.


----- Original Message -----
From: <gena-j ntlworld com>
To: Thomas D. Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Speech has died - How do I discover the cause and fix?


> Hi
>
> Thanks, I'd considered reinstalling Gnome Speech but felt that as its
> the same for root and my partner, removing the gnome2 directory isn't
> going to fix it.  I thought that there might be a script that would
> envoke defaults as well as, logs to observe any problems.
>
> My reader visited today and I guided her through sellecting Festival
> which she did but it didn't recover speech.
>
> I'll try checking out again and building and installing Gnome Speech and
> dpkg-reconfigure gnopernicus to see if things are any different.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gena
>
> >Hi, Gena.
> >try removing your .gnome2 directory from your home directory, and letting
> >gnome recreate it when you run startx again.
> >You will also have to reset the ggconf accessibility key before loading
> >gnome so keep that in mind if you choose to kill the .gnome2 directory.
> >If that fails a trick I sometimes try is uninstall gnome-speech and re
> >install it.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <gena-j ntlworld com>
> >To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> >Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:12 AM
> >Subject: Speech has died - How do I discover the cause and fix?
> >
> >
> >> Hi
> >> In short I:
> >> Installed X and Gnome 2 from Debian about 26 July 2003 and Festival
came
> >> up talking straight away.
> >>
> >> I purchased Dectalk and installed it.
> >>
> >> I checked out from cvs July 31 Gnome Speech and installed it over the
> >> previous version.  The test program discovered and is able to play both
> >> synthesisers as desired.
> >>
> >> I loaded Gnome and Festival came up talking as expected.  However, I
> >> wanted to use the Dectalk driver.  So I went to the Absolute settings
> >> and selected Dectalk and voice Paul.  I didn't know if I needed to use
> >> the Force button the first time round but as my changes were not
> >> successful, I navigated the dialogs and used the Force button and
> >> haven't had speech since.  This the same for all users.
> >>
> >> Where do I go from here?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Gena
> >>
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