Speech-dispatcher problems with ubuntu EasyPeasy on netbook

[jose vilmar estacio de souza]

Hi,

Try the folloing:
1. Open a terminal session.
2. Issue the following commands:
pwd >r1.txt
ls -ld .speech-dispatcher/ >>r1.txt
ls -ld . >>r1.txt

Please, send me the file r1.txt created by the steps above.
Thanks.

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On 08/10/2009 04:26 PM, Jennifer wrote:
> I can't find the /.speech-dispatcher directory in my home directory. 
> When I run the command "speech-dispatcher" without the quotes through 
> the terminal orca states that the directory .speech-dispatcher is not 
> found in home and that the pid file can not be created due to the 
> wrong permissions.
>
> Are things being installed in the wrong place? Is there something else 
> I should do?
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Jen!
> *From:* jose vilmar estacio de souza <mailto:vilmar at informal.com.br>
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 08, 2009 10:09 AM
> *To:* Jennifer <mailto:fluffy_bunny_1988 at hotmail.co.uk>
> *Cc:* speechd at lists.freebsoft.org <mailto:speechd at lists.freebsoft.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Speech-dispatcher problems with ubuntu EasyPeasy on netbook
>
> 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.
>
> []S Jos? Vilmar Est?cio de Souza
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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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