Re: Orca startup problem with espeak and speech-dispatcher

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

You could try chmod 755 /usr/share/espeak-data
which might be the cause of the problem.

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Hermann wrote:

> Hi,
> in order to use Orca with espeak, one has to start speech-dispatcher within 
> the system start.
> Having started my system, I cannot use Orca with espeak immediately, 
> because 
> espeak and speech-dispatcher don't cooperate.
> Entering
> spd-say "wie geht es dir"
> produces no speech output, but no error messages too.
> Note: My standard language is German.
> For English as a secondary language I use Festival Lite, which is run by 
> speech-dispatcher too.
> Entering
> spd-say -l en "how are you"
> produces speech output.
> /var/log/speech-dispatcher/espeak.log says:
> sh: speak: not found
> Restarting speech-dispatcher as root solves the problem.
> Note: Speech-dispatcher doesn't start up as root, it starts as user 
> speech-dispatcher and is assigned to the group audio.
> Any fixes or work arounds for this bug?
> Regards
> Hermann
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