gnopernicus startup error

[Christopher Moore <christopher h moore verizon net>]

I'm trying to run for the first time.  I received the following error:
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* SCREEN READER CORE *
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(srcore:371): gnopernicus-WARNING **: Exception "Unknown CORBA exception
id: 'ID
L:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'" occured at line 374.

(gnopernicus:367): gnopernicus-WARNING **: srcore exited.

I'm using freetts but don't know if I have to start a speech server first
as they do for festival.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Chris
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