Speech-dispatcher on Fedora 9

[Lars Bjørndal]

Tomas Cerha <cerha at brailcom.org> writes:

> Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
>> I start SD as a daemon on runlevel 5. Giving 'init 5', it starts, and
>> it's setup to use espeak with pulse. However, doing 'spd-say test'
>> gives nothing. The log output is:
>> 
>>  Tue Nov 11 10:48:11 2008 [434634] PulseAudio ERROR: Failed to connect to 
>> server: Access denied
>
> Hello Lars,
>
> Pulse audio server usually runs under the same user, which runs the
> desktop and only allows connections from the same user.  That's why you
> will probably need to run Speech Dispatcher as a user within your Gnome
> session, not as a system wide service.  See Speech Dispatcher
> documentation for more information how to run Speech Dispatcher as user.

Hello, and thank you!

Do you mean that I should run SD as my regualr user after logging in?
Ok, I tried that, and I get the following output:

[Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 : 102288] speechd:  Module espeak started
sucessfully 
with message: 
--------------- 
Espeak: Initialized successfully. 
--------------- 
 
[Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 : 102453] speechd:   Reading configuration
for pattern
 emacs:* 
[Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 : 102532] speechd:   Reading configuration
for pattern
 *:gnomespeech:* 
[Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 : 102573] speechd:  Configuration has been
read from "
/etc/speech-dispatcher//speechd.conf" 
Error: can't open logging file /tmp/.speechd//speechd.log! Using
stdout. 
[Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 : 102605] speechd:  Speech Dispatcher
Logging to file 
/tmp/.speechd//speechd.log 
[Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 : 102622] speechd:   Speech Dispatcher
started with 1 
output module 
[Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 : 102646] speechd:   Openning socket
connection 
[lrs at lapx ~]$  Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 [155151] PulseAudio ERROR:
CHECK_CONNECTED: !pulse_connected (retval=-1) 
 
 Tue Nov 11 13:18:47 2008 [155262] PulseAudio ERROR: _pulse_close:
 error (_drain
) 


I ran it with 'speech-dispatcher -P spd.pid' from my regualr user
after logging into GNOME.

Could you please help me further?

Lars