lsr can't connect to a device, speech-dispacher festival can't connect to server

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  I believe lsr is a dead project.  It hasn't been developed in almost 2 
years now.  Orca is now the only screen reader
for the GUI desktop still being developed.

          Kenny
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:09:42PM +0200, Gerhard Gau?ling wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I try to get lsr and speech-dispacher to work on ubuntu 8.04 hardy.
> lsr is not able to find a outputdevice:
> ~$ lsr -l debug -y "this is a test"
> Linux Screen Reader ver. 0.5.3 rev. Mon Jun  4 17:21:12 UTC 2007
> Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 IBM Corporation
> 
> No handlers could be found for logger "Device"
> Said: this is a test
> 
> 
> ~$ sudo invoke-rc.d speech-dispatcher restart
> [sudo] password for gerhard: 
>  * Restarting Speech Dispatcher speech-dispatcher                             
>   
> Error: can't open logging file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//speechd.log! 
> Using stdout.
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 450290] speechd:  Speech Dispatcher Logging 
> to file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//speechd.log
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 450419] speechd: ERROR: Openning debug file 
> for espeak failed: (error=-1) Permission denied
> [...]
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 728859] speechd: ERROR: Openning debug file 
> for festival failed: (error=-1) Permission denied
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 728872] speechd:  Initializing output module 
> festival with binary /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules//sd_festival 
> and configuration /etc/speech-dispatcher//modules//festival.conf
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 729000] speechd:  Output module is logging 
> to standard error output (stderr)
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 733319] speechd:  Module festival loaded.
> festival_client: connect to server failed
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 772075] speechd:  Error: Broken pipe to 
> module.
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 772093] speechd:   Output module working 
> status: 0 (pid:19111)
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 772118] speechd:  Output module terminated 
> abnormally, probably crashed.
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 772135] speechd:  Error: Broken pipe to 
> module.
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 772145] speechd:   Output module working 
> status: 0 (pid:19111)
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 772158] speechd:  Output module terminated 
> abnormally, probably crashed.
> [Mon Aug 10 20:32:53 2009 : 772194] speechd: ERROR: Module festival 
> failed to initialize. Reason: 
> ---------------
> Communicating with Festival through a socket. Can't connect to Festival 
> server. Check your configuration in etc/speechd-modules/festival.conf 
> for the specified host and port and check if Festival is really running 
> there, e.g. with telnet. Please see documentation for more info.
> ---------------
> [...]
> 
> Ok, I found out while writing this email that I have to start festival 
> with the option --server before starting speech-dispatcher:
> 
> ~$  festival --server
> server    Mon Aug 10 20:59:30 2009 : Festival server started on port 
> 1314
>  Mon Aug 10 20:59:51 2009 [375934] PulseAudio ERROR: 
> CHECK_CONNECTED: !pulse_connected (retval=-1)
>  Mon Aug 10 20:59:51 2009 [375978] PulseAudio ERROR: _pulse_close: error 
> (_drain)
>  Mon Aug 10 20:59:51 2009 [405296] PulseAudio ERROR: 
> CHECK_CONNECTED: !pulse_connected (retval=-1)
>  Mon Aug 10 20:59:51 2009 [405340] PulseAudio ERROR: _pulse_close: error 
> (_drain)
> client(1) Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : accepted from localhost
> 
> ~$  sudo invoke-rc.d speech-dispatcher restart
> [sudo] password for gerhard: 
>  * Restarting Speech Dispatcher speech-dispatcher                             
>   
> Error: can't open logging file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//speechd.log! 
> Using stdout.
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 392021] speechd:  Speech Dispatcher Logging 
> to file /var/log/speech-dispatcher//speechd.log
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 392118] speechd: ERROR: Openning debug file 
> for espeak failed: (error=-1) Permission denied
> [...]
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 486548] speechd: ERROR: Openning debug file 
> for festival failed: (error=-1) Permission denied
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 486561] speechd:  Initializing output module 
> festival with binary /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules//sd_festival 
> and configuration /etc/speech-dispatcher//modules//festival.conf
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 486731] speechd:  Output module is logging 
> to standard error output (stderr)
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 496630] speechd:  Module festival loaded.
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 929416] speechd: LINE here:|200-kal_diphone 
> en US|
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 929441] speechd: LINE here:|200-don_diphone 
> en BR|
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 929453] speechd: LINE here:|200-ked_diphone 
> en US|
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 929466] speechd: LINE here:|200-rab_diphone 
> en BR|
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 929478] speechd: LINE here:|200 OK VOICE 
> LIST SENT|
> [Mon Aug 10 20:59:54 2009 : 929517] speechd:  Module festival started 
> sucessfully with message: 
> ---------------
> Communicating with Festival through a socket. 
> ---------------
> [...]
> 
> But that doesn't help with lsr:
> ~$ lsr
> Linux Screen Reader ver. 0.5.3 rev. Mon Jun  4 17:21:12 UTC 2007
> Copyright (c) 2005, 2007 IBM Corporation
> 
> [Device WARNING 2009-08-10 21:00:37,668] no output available
> [Device WARNING 2009-08-10 21:00:37,669] no input available
> 
> I got also Problems with pulseaudio. FYI: I'm using polypaudio not 
> pulseaudio!
> 
> ~$ spd-say Hallo
> ~$ No protocol specified
> E: client-conf-x11.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
>  Mon Aug 10 21:05:36 2009 [737656] PulseAudio ERROR: Failed to connect 
> to server: Connection refused
> 
> ~$ spd-say -l cs -r 90 "Ahoj"
> ~$ 
> ~$ spd-conf -d
> bash: spd-conf: command not found
> 
> 
> What is wrong with my installation?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Gerhard
> 
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