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

[Reto Büttner]

Reinstalling everything from scratch helped. Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick and
Paparazzi. Now USB volumes and speech work right out of the box just
fine :-)

Cheers, Reto

2010/11/8 Reto Büttner <address@hidden>:
> Hi Felix,
>
> thanks for asking and helping concerning ALSA and PulseAudio.
> Unfortunately still do not have speech working yet.
>
> After several automatic updates my Ubuntu installation somehow got
> messed up. I cannot adjust the audio volume anymore and cannot connect
> USB volumes (memory sticks). I spend many painful hours debugging,
> reading forums and trying many things without success. Maybe I need to
> completely reinstall Ubuntu.
>
> Cheers,
> Reto
>
> 2010/11/5 Felix Ruess <address@hidden>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> still problems with speech?
>> Speech works for me on Maverick with espeak out of the box without any
>> extra configuration.
>> I just updated the wiki page a little, maybe your problem is that you
>> set the audio output to ALSA for the festival module? Ubuntu uses
>> PulseAudio, the ALSA information was old...
>>
>> Cheers, Felix
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Gareth Roberts
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 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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