Re: everything installed but no speech

["Thomas Ward" <slingshooter valkyrie net>]

Hi, Charles. Comments are below.



----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck valstar net>
To: Gnome Accessibility List <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:59 PM
Subject: everything installed but no speech


> Hi list,
>
> I have installed gnome 2.0.6 on this Slackware 8.1 distribution
> with only minor difficulties. I have also installed festival
> successfully, and when running "festival --server" in one console
> and "festival_client" in another, they connect and I can produce
> speech okay. I also have gnome-speech, gnome-mag, and gnopernicus
> installed, but am getting no speech when I run startx.

Sounds good so far. Have you tried the test-speech tool? Test-speech should
test your festival server and tell you if activation is successful or
failed, and say something.

>
> The XF86 log file is not informative, and when I redirect startx
> output to a file and examine it after starting X and stopping it,
> I get a few lines that I am not sure how to interpret.
> It is not clear to me if they suggest a problem or result from a
> normal shutdown.

Mail them to the list and we can let you know.

>
> Thomas Ward seems to have been having problems much like the ones
> I am experiencing, but I cannot find any reference that suggests
> he has solved them.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

At this time I haven't solved the problem, but I am working on the problem.


> I  get similar results when I run gnopernicus before
> gnome-session in my xinitrc file or when the two are reversed.
>
> Where can I look for more information?

You should run gnome session before gnopernicus.  Otherwise gnopernicus can
shut down with an error about not being able to open the display which
happens to me.

>
> Chuck
>
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