Is Festival 2.5 compatible with Speech Dispatcher?

[Didier Spaier]

Hello,
 
Le 27/06/2018 ? 14:28, Pierre Lorenzon a ?crit?:
> As far as I remember speech-dispatcher communicates with
> festival through a client server protocol. Do not really
> remember if is is ? tcp process or a linux socket but in fact
> do not matter. 2.5 festival release is simply an code upgrade
> to be compatible with gcc new versions. When Alan W. Black
> annouced this release on festvox list he did absolutely not
> tell anything about changing client server festival protocols
> as well as no change to the interactive interface or batch
> mode. Hence I would say that there is no compatibility problem
> even if I do not tested it myself.

> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
>> It seems to be working on Debian at least.

I confirm that Festival 2.5 as well as 2.4 work in Slint,
with speech-dispatcher started by orca, thanks for your answers.

Additional question:
in the context of orca + speech-dispatcher,
this needs to start the festival server before orca:
festival --server &

I could do that in a ~/.config/autostart/festival.desktop or something
like that.

But I need to start the server only if the user wants to use festival
with speech-dispatcher

How would you do that?

Cheers,

Didier

PS I find the voice kallpc16k a bit hoarse.