Question about Speech-dispatcher

[Tomas Cerha]

Hello,

just to avoid confusion, what Chris describes is running Speech
Dispatcher from your user's account.

There is also another option to run it as a system wide service and this
can also be run as another user (not root), most often as the user named
`speech-dispatcher'.

My impression is, that you might have asked for later option, since this
is what I suggested on the Orca list.  But if you are not experienced in
system administration, I wouldn't recommend it.  You might be better
waiting until 0.6.6 gets to Debian testing and install it from a package
which will handle all the setup for you.  In the meantime, you can run
SD as root (on your own risk <smile>) or do what Chris recommends.

If you still think you would like to setup 0.6.6 compiled from source as
a system wide service running as `speech-dispatcher' user, just ask again...

Best regards

Tomas

C.M. Brannon wrote:
>> Also, i have heared that it is recommended to run SD as another user and not 
>> root. What is the best way of setting up this if
>>  i have compiled this from source?
> 
> First, create a directory, ~/.speech-dispatcher/
> Make a subdirectory named "conf",
> and copy your config files from /etc/speech-dispatcher/ (or wherever they live
> on your box) to ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/
> Here's what my ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/ directory looks like:
> clients/
> modules/
> speechd.conf
> 
> You may want to change the port on which Speech Dispatcher listens.  Do that
> in conf/speechd.conf.
> I have the line
> Port 6562
> in mine.  Unfortunately, spd-say seems to want to talk to port 6560, and
> there isn't a command-line option to change that behavior.
> (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.)
> Other programs do allow you to specify a port.
> If you're just running one instance of Dispatcher, using a non-standard
> port isn't worth the trouble, IMHO.
> 
> This is documented in the info file that comes with Dispatcher.  I set
> it up just now on my box, and the whole process took a minute or two.
> 
> Good luck,
> -- Chris