Problems with Fedora Core 4 /test-speech {festival/freeTTS}

[Aditya Pandey <aditya kumar pandey gmail com>]

On normal Fedora Core 4 installation, gnome-speech/festival combination does not work due to some issues with festival-synthesis-driver. festival --server command dies as defunct.
So I removed the GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival.server, and decided to install FreeTTS instead.
Reference: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2005-May/msg00001.html

While festival is installed well, and recompiled 
gnome-speech-0.3.8 also takes up everything well, still it fails on 
bonovo_activation_activate_from_id call in select_server function of test-speeh.c saying

Error activating service: Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occured (BONOBO:GeneralError:
1.0)

So what i did was to run by hand freetts-synthesis-driver 
and then run test-speech and everything worked !!!


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Aditya Kumar Pandey
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