[Tts-project] Bug#948679: Bug#948679: speech-dispatcher: doesn't start, first due to /var/run/…/cache/… then Can't bind local socket

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Thorsten Glaser, le sam. 11 janv. 2020 21:31:43 +0100, a ecrit:
> Following https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Speech-Dispatcher
> I edited the config file and tried to stop and start it:
> 
> # /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start

There is no need to start speech-dispatcher as root. Nowadays you can
just let it get autostarted from orca or spd-say. All you would need to
do to test it is running

spd-say "foo"

and if that doesn't work, check out the log files in
/run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/log

> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf:33: Missing argument to option 'GenericPunctNone'

That's an unrelated issue with libdotconf
https://github.com/williamh/dotconf/issues/5

> root at tglase-nb:/var/log/speech-dispatcher # cat mary-generic.log                                                
>  Sat Jan 11 21:30:19 2020 [279375] ALSA: Closing ALSA device
>  Sat Jan 11 21:30:19 2020 [279475] ALSA: ALSA closed.
> 
> … but still, no sound.

Most probably because by default Orca would look at the per-user
speech-dispatcher socket, not the system-wide socket.


That said, I'll have a look at fixing the missing paths for system-wide
execution.

Samuel