Re: Accessibility frustrations

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Fernando:

You mention below that the gnome-speech festival backend should be "more 
robust against these errors".  I think this is a good idea but I don't 
think we can silently recover from this problem - however the 
gnome-speech backend should have some way of communicating information 
in its error message to the gnome-speech client, for diagnostic purposes.

Also, the gnome-speech festival driver itself could print detailed 
information to stdout on detection of a problem connecting to the 
festival server, if it doesn't already.  Any patches to make these sorts 
of issues more robust, or to provide more detailed diagnostic 
information, would be very welcome.

regards

Bill

Fernando Herrera wrote:

> Yes, I had the same problem than you. Festival 1.95 only allows
> connections from "localhost" as defined by its default configuration
> file, but the code checking this only gets the first entry for a
> hostname, so if you have something before localhost on your /etc/hosts
> file, it fails. I think this is a bug on festival, but gnome-speech
> festival backend should be more robust against this errors.
>
> Salu2