Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Re: Speech in GCS

[Gareth Roberts]

I don't have festival at the moment, but I remember similar symptoms and I'm 
sure I eventually ended up just working around it by using flite as the spd 
backend - I think it's all configurable somewhere!
Have you tried the magic google god?
--G
On 6 Oct 2010, at 21:07, Reto Büttner wrote:

> Hi Gareth,
> 
> I don't get flite working.
> 
> espeak works fine as stand-alone:
> 
> $ espeak hello
> 
> As mentioned before, festival works fine as stand-alone.
> 
> The behaviour I get now is:
> 
> - No festival server started => spd-say goes to the dummy output and
> tells me via loudspeaker where to look for log information
> 
> - festival server started => no output on the loudspeaker, following
> log information:
> 
> speech-dispatcher.log:
> 
> [Wed Oct  6 21:52:50 2010 : 537519] speechd:   Connection closed
> 
> festival.log:
> 
> Wed Oct  6 21:52:51 2010 [119132] ALSA: Start of playback on ALSA
> Wed Oct  6 21:52:51 2010 [119232] ALSA: Allocating new hw_params structure
> Wed Oct  6 21:52:51 2010 [150853] ALSA: Freeing HW parameters
> Wed Oct  6 21:52:51 2010 [150957] ALSA: End of playback on ALSA
> 
> Do you have it working on your computer? What settings are you using?
> 
> Cheers, Reto
> 
> 2010/10/6 Gareth R <address@hidden>:
>> That's odd - have you tried flite instead of festival as a workaround?
>> --G
>> 
>> On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 20:16 +0200, Reto Büttner wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>> I still don't get the speech working in the GCS. I tried hard, spent
>>> some more hours on it, but it still doesn't work. I have
>>> speech-dispatcher listening on port 6560 and festival server listening
>>> on port 1314:
>>> 
>>> $ netstat -ltnv
>>> Active Internet connections (only servers)
>>> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
>>> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:6560          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
>>> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:1314            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
>>> 
>>> I can connect to the festival server via telnet and get nice voice outputs:
>>> 
>>> $telnet localhost 1314
>>> Trying ::1...
>>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>> Connected to localhost.
>>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>> (SayText "hello")
>>> LP
>>> #<Utterance 0xb6a72a28>
>>> ft_StUfF_keyOK
>>> 
>>> But when I try to get a hello via the speech-dispatcher I get a fatal error:
>>> 
>>> $ spd-say "hello"
>>> Fatal error (libspeechd) [libspeechd.c:1253]:Internal error during 
>>> communication
>>> 
>>> This is the same error message I get in the paparazzi control panel
>>> when I launch the gcs with the speech option.
>>> 
>>> And festival outputs the following SIOD error:
>>> 
>>> $ festival --server
>>> server    Sat Oct  2 19:38:58 2010 : Festival server started on port 1314
>>> client(1) Sat Oct  2 19:44:03 2010 : accepted from localhost
>>> client(1) Sat Oct  2 19:44:37 2010 : disconnected
>>> client(2) Sat Oct  2 19:45:11 2010 : accepted from localhost
>>> SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : SET
>>> SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : SELF
>>> SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : CLIENT_NAME
>>> 
>>> Who can bring some light in configuring speech in paparazzi under
>>> Ubuntu Lucid Lynx? Does anybody have speech running?
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Reto
>>> 
>>> 2010/9/30 Reto Büttner <address@hidden>:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to get the speech in the GCS working. After I went through
>>>> the configuration described on the speech wiki it worked immediately
>>>> just fine. "Welcome to paparazzi" and all the messages displayed in
>>>> the GCS. I enjoyed that a lot.
>>>> 
>>>> Now I rebooted my computer and the sound outputs speech dispatcher
>>>> error messages like "look at var/log/speech-dispatcher/... for error
>>>> messages". No paparazzi messages anymore. I tried some other
>>>> configurations in the files festival.conf and speechd.conf but I
>>>> didn't get it work again.
>>>> 
>>>> I am running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I crashed a plane due to low bat.
>>>> Unfortunately I didn't notice the low bat warnings on the screen,
>>>> because I was so busy tuning control parameters.
>>>> 
>>>> Who can help getting the lovely speech function working?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers, Reto
>>>> 
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