Re: Orca IBM TTS stability issues

[Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt comcast net>]

On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:48, Sean Murphy wrote:
> All.
>
> I have the commercially available IBM TTS Speech engine running on my
> Ubuntu Edgy installation.  If I use the Outloud Emacspeak Server option
> with ORCA, then everything is stable.  But if I use Speech Dispatch, things
> become very unstable very quickly.
>
> All the packets except for IBM TTS came from the distro I am currently
> running.  questions:
>
> 1.  Is anyone here using IBM TTS Speech or not?
> 2.  If so, how hav eyou found it with Speech dispatcher/?
>
> Sean

Hi,

I am the author of the Speech Dispatcher IBM TTS module.  I am having some 
trouble duplicating this problem.  Can you capture Speech Dispatcher logs and 
send them to me please?  To do that, edit the speechd.conf file (should be 
in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speech.conf).  Find the LogLevel line and change it 
to 5.  Also edit file ibmtts.conf (should be 
in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/ibmtts.conf).  Find the line that begins 
with "Debug" and change to "Debug 1".  You can also specify the location of 
the log files in these conf files.  You'll need to restart speech-dispatcher 
after making these changes.  

/etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher restart

or reboot.  After it stops speaking, zip the log files and send them to me 
directly.   The default log file locations are:

/var/log/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.log
/var/log/speech-dispatcher/ibmtts.log

They'll be rather large; that is ok with me.

Be sure to edit the conf files and restore original settings to avoid filling 
up your hard drive!

BTW, I am not an ubuntu, Orca, or speakup user, so problem might be specific 
to these configurations.  Maybe the logs will reveal the problem.

Thanks
-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)