Re: [orca-list] speech dispatcher - still confused

["Derek London" <derekedit hotmail com>]

I just ran spd-conf and made a configuration and got spd-say to work with 
espeak but not ibmtts. Though I'm using voxin and not the other offering of 
ibmtts, they're essentially the same voice except that voxin is supported 
and maintained where as the other is not right? It says the speech 
dispatcher module is importable and the env grep pipe didn't return 
anything. But when I type spd-say test I hear espeak say test. Same for when 
I type spd-say -o ibmtts "testing". Orca still crashes when I try to start 
the configuration settings dialog.

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From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke brailcom org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:37 AM
To: "Derek London" <derekedit hotmail com>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] speech dispatcher - still confused

> Derek London wrote:
> > And do I need to copy /etc/speech-dispatcher to my home directory, run 
> > spd-conf, both, or neither?
>
> You need to do one of them. spd-conf is the easier way.
>
> > In addition to the instructions listed, are there more directories that 
> > should have been or need to be created? It's looking for a clients 
> > directory. What should go in there?
>
> Client specific settings. This directory should be created in either way.
> What exactly fails and with what message?
>
> > Also curious why /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher stop doesn't stop the 
> > speech-dispatcher daemon, I see it says stopping, but then I still have 
> > to kill the process.
>
> I think either your /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher contains a mysterious 
> "exit 0"
> at the beginning or your /etc/default/speech-dispatcher contains a line
> RUN_SPEECHD=no. Either of them is an invention of some distributions
> which we have no controll about. Anyway, /etc/init.d/ only handles your
> system-wide Speech Dispatcher and has no effect on the Speech Dispatchers
> that you run under ordinary users.
>
> > All in all, I'm still largely unclear what I need to be doing, but the 
> > most important thing is getting orca to see speech-dispatcher when it is 
> > installed, or not see speech-dispatcher when it is removed so I can use 
> > the configuration dialog without crashing orca.
>
> Did you run the spd-conf diagnostics? What does it say about the python 
> library?
> Does it work? What is the result of the following command?
>
> env | grep SPEECHD_PORT
>
>
> With regards,
> Hynek