stopping speech-dispatcher while trying to work with festival

[Mark Peveto]

I want to stop and restart speech-dispatcher, but nothing's stopping it. I've tried sudo pkill speech-dispatcher, and it says it does it, but it's
still there, because when I try to restart it, it says it's already running.
Stop speech-dispatcher doesn't work, neither does kill speech-dispatcher. The darn thing won't died! LOL!

[B. Henry]

Mark, have you:
1. Edited your /etc/speech-dispatcher.speechd.conf file to uncomment the add festival line?
2. installed a festival voice package, maybe one comes with the basic festival package itself, but not sure/other voices come in seperate packages.
3. installed the speech-dispatcher-festival package, i.e. the festival driver for espeak?
4. started festival with something like
festival --server &

If all of this is taken care of you should be able to restart speech-dispatcher. It needs to restart, so that's not a problem.
You will need sudo perms to kill it most likely, at least I do on my vinux box, and have done nothing odd with my SD configuraton.
Try this command
sudo kill -1 $(pidof speech-dispatcher)
Maybe
sudo pkill -1 speech-dispatcher would work, but think pkill n only kill one process/should be sleeping, so may be mixing things up upstairs...lol.
Anyway, if you should be good to go doing asexplained above.
I doubt you will find festival worth even typing those commands, at least not the U.S. English voices available in standard repos.
The voices are very shaky.


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Mark Peveto wrote:
Sun, May 01, 2016 at 04:35:45PM -0500

> I want to stop and restart speech-dispatcher, but nothing's stopping it. I've tried sudo pkill speech-dispatcher, and it says it does it, but it's
> still there, because when I try to restart it, it says it's already running.
> Stop speech-dispatcher doesn't work, neither does kill speech-dispatcher. The darn thing won't died! LOL!
>

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[Mark Peveto]

I'm gonna get on the test machine and try these now.

[Mark Peveto]

Ok, I've got that working. What do I put in to install the other voices if available?
I have another question, but it should probably get another thread.

On Mon, 2 May 2016, B. Henry wrote:

[Mark Peveto]

Burt,
As usual, buddy, your info is invaluable. Now I can try out the different synths, even if in the end I don't pick 'em.
Thanks.

On Mon, 2 May 2016, B. Henry wrote:

[B. Henry]

Luke deserves credit here as well.
This is just another example of how great this group is, one member helps another who is able to combine this help with other nfo to help a third, and
probably others who read and do not post.
There are a lot of things Vinux needs to do better, but this group/mailing list is something that Vinux has done better than any other project I
know of.

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Mark Peveto wrote:

Mon, May 02, 2016 at 01:09:01PM -0500

[Mark Peveto]

I certainly agree with you there. Thanks also to luke, then.
Appreciate the chance to tinker. I'm probably not going to pick any of them, but it's good to at least be able to hear 'em.
Ok, gotta go feed the cat!

[B. Henry]

Try
apt-get search festival
and see what you get.
I made an alias so that apt-get search does not have to be typed almost every time I boot Vinux or any Debian based distro.
There's an alias in the default alias file that comes with vinux for this as I recall, but you will have to look for it in ~/.bash_aliases.
I don't like that file as I find single letter aliases far too easy to accidentally enter and many of the word aliases either longer than the real
command or far from intuitive and harder to remember than the actual command they run. Perhaps I'm the only one who feels this way, but the more
important point is that aliases can be a powerful tool to make ones use of the command line more efficient.
You can also search using the software center, or synaptic.; yet another example of how Linux gives us multiple ways to do what we need to do.
I think I only saw two English voices, both with 8K and 16K versions. I got the 16K packages, and the quality is still terrible, so I assume that the 8K
versions are even worse.
Responsiveness is not an issue for me with festival that I've noticed, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone has found a Festival voice in any
language that they actually like.
For the guy who wantsCzech language voices, there is one or more Czech voice options for festival, so if you have not tried them, perhaps you should
give them a try.
Regards,

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Mark Peveto wrote:

Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:01:57AM -0500

[Amir]

Hi,

i found the festival for mbrola voices, but sadly there are only 4
voices, 3 for us voices and 1 for english i think. If someone can make
festival work with mbrola, all voices, it will be great since, all
voices of mbrola cannot be used with orca, only the english en1 voice
will work no matter how many voices of mrbola you have installed.