Is Festival 2.5 compatible with Speech Dispatcher?

[Luke Yelavich]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 07:15:57AM AEST, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Didier Spaier, le mer. 27 juin 2018 23:04:36 +0200, a ecrit:
> > But I need to start the server only if the user wants to use festival
> > with speech-dispatcher
> > 
> > How would you do that?
> 
> I guess the modern way would be to have a autostartable service
> registered on dbus (yes, I'm being vague, I don't know the exact
> technical terms).

Well, I think for security you would first want festival to use a unix domain 
socket if local only communication is required. Then you could use systemd 
socket activation.

The easiest short term solution may be to have a config option in the festival 
driver, and if set, the speech-dispatcher festival module starts festival and 
monitors it and shuts it down when done.

Luke