Re: [mh] Help getting TTS to run on new linux install

[Tim S. <tp...@ma...>]

On Fri, November 24, 2006 16:51, Evan Graham said:
> I am working on getting rid of my last windows box (happens to be
> running misterhouse).  I have been mostly successful getting a headless
> Ubuntu box running but have run into a problem with festival that I am
> stuck on.  Sounds work fine as does festival from the command line (echo
> 'this is festival' | festival --tts).  I can not get speech to work from
> mh, however.
>
> On startup I get the expected messages about tts:
>
>     Starting setup
>      - using simple Text distance function
>     Creating festival TTS socket on localhost:1314
>     Creating socket and serial objects
>
>
>
> When issuing a command from MH that results in speech I get an error
> like this:
>
>     normal: Hi to authorized web [192.168.1.231], web [192.168.1.231].
>     Socket_Item client start error:  could not start a tcp client socket
>      - host=localhost port=1314: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection
>     refused
>     Error, socket port festival has not been set: data=(SayText "Hi to
>     authorized web [one hundred ninety-two.one hundred sixty-eight.1.two
>     hundred thirty-one], web [one hundred ninety-two.one hundred
>     sixty-eight.1.two hundred thirty-one].")
>
>
> I have googled for a solution but I am coming up short.  Can anyone
> suggest how I should proceed with troubleshooting this?an authorized

Actually, this is a rather easy fix. Start festival with
'festival --server&' before you start MisterHouse. Make sure you add your
system name/ip to /etc/festival.scm before you start it in server mode, or
you will get errors about not having authorized client.

Tim

--
Tim Sailer
Coastal Internet, Inc.
www.buoy.com
631-399-2910