Hi, My audio problems with Ubuntu under VmWare Server continue. As I've been unable to find a workaround for the audio issues I'm having with Festival, I'm considering using the eSpeak package in stead. I saw a speech dispatcher config file for it at:
http://braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2006-April/038667.html eSPeak itself, including the binary, can be downloaded at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/espeak So I fetched speak-1.14-linux.zip on the Web site and unzipped it directly in my home folder. UPon running it, however, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./speak "this is a test" PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000 Apparently it cannot access the sound card for some reason. This is a separate termminal via which I logged in. I also have a Gnome session running and had disabled audio in it as someone adviced it might help with Gnopernicus problems. I re-enabled the Gnome sound effects and tried again with no changes. I've testedd and Gnome happily plays its own sound effects like it should. PA is short for port audio I guess but other than that the message isn't very informative. I googled with the whole message but only found this question, to which no-one had answered: http://techweb.rfa.org/pipermail/portaudio/2005-December/005067.html I continued by googling with the constant O_WRONGLY alone but found nothing of interest. Apparently it is some Unix standard library constant and that's that. So any help appreciated. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming: http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
