On Wednesday 10 Mar 2010 23:54:23 Milan Zamazal wrote: > It's very unlikely Speech Dispatcher creates the sound itself. There > should be a process that sends texts to Speech Dispatcher to synthesize. > Since you don't hear synthesized text, there is something wrong with > your audio system, synthesizer, configuration or maybe even Speech > Dispatcher. >
Hmmm!! I think that is how speech-dispatcher got pulled in. The KDE suite has many such utilities like kttsd and others that must have pulled it in as a Depends or a Recommends. What I noticed is that when the speech-dispatcher init script is started there is no sound problem. But when I log into KDE and run an application that write audio, I start getting the chirpy sound (along with the actual audio). At this moment, if I kill the speech-dispatcher script with the stop init command, the chirpy sound goes away. This is how I concluded that it must have something to do with speech- dispatcher. But what I wonder is about why does speech-dispatcher gets involved here. I guess it should only come into picture if a text-to-speech application does some action. I do seem to be having some issues with the KDE phonon layer on my box currently. I am not sure if the problem actually lies there. > Which synthesizer do you use with Speech Dispatcher? Do you use ALSA > for Speech Dispatcher audio output? Does the synthesizer work when used > standalone? Is there anything suspicious in your Speech Dispatcher logs > (see /var/log/speech-dispatcher/)? I guess that would be festival. Maybe, I am not sure if it really is alsa or something else. For KDE, phonon is supposed to abstract the actual hardware devices using pulseaudio. But for speech-dispatcher, what audio output it uses, I am not very sure. You can find the log here: http://www.researchut.com/tmp/speech-dispatched.log.gz Regards, Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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