RE: [misterhouse-users] festival server socket connection failure

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

> Well, I've got festival installed and all tests worked fine.  So, I
> installed misterhouse and configured it to use Festival on port 1314, the
> default.  When I try to run
>
> ./festival --server & echo '(SayText "Howdy")' | ./festival_client
>
> I get teh following:
>
> socket: gethostbyname failed
>
> The festival server started OK, I even tried it with the festival server
> already running.  Just in case, I started Apache, too.
>
> I looked in the festival docs and didn't see anything.  Any idea what I
> did wrong?

Hmmm, not sure.  Maybe your non-root user is having access problems?  Or
maybe the box you are on dis dis-allowed from festival control.  The install
docs point to this file as alowing control from other boxes:

 /usr/lib/festival/lib/siteinit.scm

Does this work?

  echo 'Hello from Festival' | /usr/bin//festival --tts

If so, you might just skip the server and let mh run festival directly each
time.  It does this anyway if you need sable keyword controls (e.g. use of
different voices).

Bruce