Speech-dispatcher problems with ubuntu EasyPeasy on netbook

[jose vilmar estacio de souza]

Hi Jennifer,

I had some luck running speech-dispatcher in an ubuntu 9.04 distro

Try the following steps:
1) Remove or backup your ~/.speech-dispatcher directory. I believe that 
your actual directory was created with root permissions and this is part 
of your problems.

2) Launch spd-conf. Make sure that you are not logged as root.

3) Accept all defaults suggested by spd-conf, except the default port. 
The default port suggested is 6561 but you must change to 6560.

If all is ok, you have speech-dispatcher running in user mode, and the 
command spd-say 'hello world', should produce some speech.

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On 08/07/2009 09:35 PM, Jennifer wrote:
> Hello everyone. I have been experimenting with Linux for about 6 
> months on and off but am still quite a noob. I wanted to make orca 
> more responsive and snappy, as I am using it on my net book and it is 
> very slow     and laggy, particularly on the internet.
> I have installed speech-dispatcher and the python interface speech-d. 
> I have checked that they are installed and that they are the correct 
> versions. I can not start speech-dispatcher as a user or as a system 
> service, note that I have disabled pulse audio and am using alsa. I 
> get the following output:
> client: speech dispatcher failed to open: connection refused
> I have tried the command spd-say "hello" (with and without the quotes 
> and I get the same error as above.
>  Also when I tried the command speech-dispatcher -d I got a message 
> about not being able to create a pid file in the home directory due to 
> the wrong permissions. Should I use sudo speech-dispatcher -d or 
> something like that?
> Any help or suggestions to links would be very much appreciated. I did 
> find some resources on the net relating to this issue but they seemed 
> a little confusing.
> Thanks
> Jen!
>
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