Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread James Simmons
Michael, The activity logs contain no clues. Really no message at all. The Activity window is present but non-responsive. You can switch to the main screen using F3 (the XO equivalent activity-switching key) but you cannot shut down the application there. When you switch back to Read

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Michael, The activity logs contain no clues. Really no message at all. The Activity window is present but non-responsive. You can switch to the main screen using F3 (the XO equivalent activity-switching key) but you cannot

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread Erik Garrison
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Michael, The activity logs contain no clues. Really no message at all. The Activity window is present but non-responsive. You can switch to the main screen using F3 (the XO equivalent activity-switching key) but you cannot

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, I had written a mail to the speechd community regarding the problems that James was facing some time back. Hi, James is using speech-dispatcher on the OLPC laptop. I would just like to ask in the speechd community what is the exact meaning of the following espeak.log messages. (I get

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-15 Thread James Simmons
Erik and Michael, I think there is some confusion in Hemant's last post. Actually, speech-dispatcher seems to be working just fine on the XO. I had to reboot the XO after installing the RPMs before it would work, but it DOES work. Speech is produced, and callbacks are generated. Even the

Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-14 Thread James Simmons
A couple of weeks ago I announced here that I had text to speech working in the Read Etexts activity. I had reason to believe at the time that this was true. I am sorry to report that I was wrong. What is happening is this: Read Etexts works just fine when running under Sugar Emulation on

Re: Text To Speech issues with Read Etexts Activity

2008-07-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:46:57AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: ...but after I stop Speech I can't get it to start up again. Do the activity logs contain any clues? Worse, it generally hangs the Activity so I need to reboot the XO to quit the Activity. Is the activity window still present but