Re: Re[2]: Problems with gnome-speech

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Well...this doesn't look good.  If test-speech doesn't work,
then there's no hope that gnopernicus or Orca will be able to
use gnome-speech.

Try doing this in one terminal:

	killall festival festival-synthesis-driver
	festival-synthesis-driver

And then run test-speech in another terminal.  As you go
through test-speech, check the output from the window where
you are running festival.  My guess is that you're running
into the dreaded Festival bug that prevents it from working
as a server on Linux.  A number of workarounds are available:

<http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2005- 
February/msg00017.html>
<http://www.speechio.org/speechio.faq.html>

Hope this helps,

Will

On Jan 4, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Bram Duvigneau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Does the gnome-speech "test-speech" application work for you?
>
> No, it segfaults, see the output below:
>
> bram bramd:~$ test-speech
> 1: OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3
>
> Select a server: 1
> Attempting to activate  
> OAFIID:GNOME_Speech_SynthesisDriver_Festival:proto0.3.
> Driver name: Festival GNOME Speech Driver
> Driver version: 0.3
> Synthesizer name: Festival Speech Synthesis System
> Synthesizer Version: 1.4.3
>
> Enter desired gender ('m' or 'f'): m
>
> Enter desired locale, or 'all' to display all voices: all
> 1. kal_diphone (language english)
>
> Select voice: 1
>
> ** (process:7759): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer
> Segmentation fault
> bram bramd:~$
>
> > Will
>
> Bram