Re: orca-setup, AttributeError

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Things are definitely looking better wrt Festival - I can get it  
working well on my Ubuntu Dapper Drake system w/o needing to modify  
anything in gnome-speech.  I love those problems that seem to  
disappear if you ignore them long enough  ;-).

BTW, I spent some time getting Orca going with Ubuntu Dapper Drake  
Flight 6 on my Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop over the weekend.  My loose  
notes are here:

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuDapperDrake

The good news is that Festival works fine with it and I'm not seeing  
the same hangs and behavior that I was seeing before with the pipe/ 
socket to the Festival server.

I'm also working on similar notes for Open Solaris (using FreeTTS as  
the synthesis driver).  Do you have notes you took to get Orca going  
on your system?  If so, it would be great to get them on the Orca  
WIKI to help others running down the same path as you.

Thanks!

Will

On Apr 2, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Willie Walker wrote:

> Hi Jan:
>
> I don't think the problem is whether festival itself works or not,  
> it's the interaction between festival and gnome-speech, and also  
> perhaps with gnome-speech on a 64-bit distribution.  I've not had  
> time to look into a fix for either of these problems.  :-(
>
> Will
>
> >     WW> Aha! Thanks. I've noticed some very bad things with the
> >     WW> gnome-speech interaction with the festival server on some  
> > Linux
> >     WW> distributions. It looks like the pipe/socket between the two
> >     WW> ends up going a little haywire, causing a bunch of  
> > notification
> >     WW> to be done for nothing. The result is usually that the CPU
> >     WW> throttles to 98% and you need to kill the festival server.
> >     WW> But...this may or may not be the thing you were running into.
> >
> >     WW> While this problem is indeed important (any bug is usually at
> >     WW> the top of least one person's list), I unfortunately have to
> >     WW> prioritize things and I'm putting this one below work on OOo,
> >     WW> Firefox, Java, etc. Related to the gnome-speech/festival  
> > issue,
> >     WW> however, is that Orca should be able to recover from these  
> > kinds
> >     WW> of things gracefully because things can and will fail. We  
> > should
> >     WW> definitely get that kind of stuff resolved before v1.0.
> >
> > With latest version of debian package of Festival for amd64 works  
> > on my
> > machine OK already. (festival 1.4.3-17.1)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jan Buchal
> > Tel: (00420) 24 24 86 008
> > Mob: (00420) 608023021
> >
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