eSpeak and Speech Dispatcher

[Hemant Goyal]

Hi,

I have been trying to make speech-dispatcher work with eSpeak for the past
few hours with no results.

I am using Fedora Core 7 and installed eSpeak 1.28 and speech-dispatcher
0.61 using the Fedora yum utility.

eSpeak seems to be working fine, when tested separately. However I am having
trouble in running the spd-say command and getting audio output.

I modified the  /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf as follows :

#AddModule "flite"        "sd_flite"     "flite.conf"
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/flite.log"
> AddModule "festival"     "sd_festival"  "festival.conf"
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/festival.log"
> AddModule "espeak-generic" "sd_generic" "espeak-generic.conf "
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/espeak.log"
> #AddModule "epos-generic" "sd_generic"   "epos-generic.conf"
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/epos.log"
> #AddModule "dtk-generic"  "sd_generic"   " dtk-generic.conf"
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/dtk-generic.log"
> #AddModule "ibmtts"       "sd_ibmtts"    "ibmtts.conf"
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/ibmtts.log"
> #AddModule "cicero"        "sd_cicero"     " cicero.conf"
> "/var/log/speech-dispatcher/cicero.log"
>
> # The output module testing doesn't actually connect to
> # anything. It outputs the requested commands to standard output
> # and reads responses from stdandard input. This way, Speech Dispatcher's
> # communication with output modules can be tested easily.
>
> # AddModule "testing"
>
> # DefaultModule selects which output module is the default.
> # You must use one of the modules loaded with AddModule.
>
> #DefaultModule flite
> DefaultModule espeak-generic
>

However when I check the output logs this is what I am getting (this is
after I cleaned out all traces of eSpeak and speechd and reinstalled them) :


[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 125648] speechd:  Speech Dispatcher Logging to
file /var/log/speech-dispatcher/speechd.log
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 125832] speechd:  Initializing output module
festival with binary /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules//sd_festival and
configuration /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules//festival.conf
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 125849] speechd:  Output module is logging to
file /var/log/speech-dispatcher/festival.log
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 126337] speechd:  Module festival loaded.
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 128945] speechd: ERROR: Module festival failed
to initialize. Reason:
---------------
Communicating with Festival through a socket. Can't connect to Festival
server. Check your configuration in etc/speechd-modules/festival.conf for
the specified host and port and check if Festival is really running there,
e.g. with telnet. Please see documentation for more info.
---------------

[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 128997] speechd:   Couldn't load specified
output module
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 129143] speechd:  Initializing output module
espeak-generic with binary /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules//sd_generic
and configuration /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules//espeak- generic.conf
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 129160] speechd:  Output module is logging to
file /var/log/speech-dispatcher/espeak.log
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 129496] speechd:  Module espeak-generic loaded.
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 131402] speechd:  Module espeak-generic started
sucessfully with message:
---------------
Everything ok so far.
---------------

[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 131638] speechd:   Reading configuration for
pattern emacs:*
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 131736] speechd:   Reading configuration for
pattern *:gnomespeech:*
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 131782] speechd:  Configuration has been read
from "/etc/speech-dispatcher//speechd.conf"
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 131800] speechd:   Speech Dispatcher started
with 1 output module
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 131838] speechd:   Openning socket connection
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:30 2008 : 132707] speechd: Speech Dispatcher waiting for
clients ...
[Wed Jan 16 00:38:34 2008 : 822194] speechd:   Connection closed

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
-- 
Hemant
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