speech-dispatcher-problem

[Hynek Hanke]

On 8.9.2010 00:47, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> On 8.9.2010 00:16, Trevor Saunders wrote:
>> these all will run speechd as a system service, which means you have to
>> export SPEECHD_ADDRESS.  Do something like export
>> SPEECHD_ADDRESS=inet_socket:localhost:6560 then run spd-say.
>
> This however is new to 0.7.1. If we are speaking 0.7,
> I'll check tomorrow how exactly to do it, but I recall
> there is some problem.

The problem is that although the C API in 0.7 supports
both Inet and Unix sockets, the spd-say command will
always use unix sockets.

So I'd recommend:

> A possible alternative solution is to determine why
> Speech Dispatcher doesn't autostart as a user service.
> Start Speech Dispatcher as user, then check the
> user logfile in ~/.speech-dispatcher/log/speechd.log .

Or

> So yet another solution is to wait a few days for the
> final 0.7.1 release. I think the debian package for
> 0.7.1 will be available early next week.

Best regards,
Hynek Hanke