#4 error: "Unexpected EOF in Festival socket"

[Fred Maranhăo]

Hi,

I'm using the newest version of espeakf, from cvs and
I'm facing problems.

My versions of espeakf files are:
espeakf.blurb 1.1
espeakf.pl 1.10

I installed espeakf, using make install, execute
emacspeakconfig and select:
6 Festival speech

set my environment:

$ env | grep DTK
DTK_PROGRAM=espeakf.pl
DTK_TCL=perl

and alter the sable-mode.scm (I don't have rab installed):

$ diff /usr/share/festival/sable-mode.scm~
/usr/share/festival/sable-mode.scm
113c113
< (set! sable_current_speaker 'voice_rab_diphone)
---
> (set! sable_current_speaker 'voice_kal_diphone)
228,229c228,229
< (set! sable_current_speaker 'voice_rab_diphone)
< (voice_rab_diphone))
---
> (set! sable_current_speaker 'voice_kal_diphone)
> (voice_kal_diphone))
458c458
< (voice_rab_diphone)
---
> (voice_kal_diphone)

But when I start emacspeak, there is a message in
minibuffer: "Process speaker not running"

The log follows:

$ more /tmp/festival.log

INIT: FESTIVAL_COMMAND = /usr/bin/festival --server

'(set! server_access_list (l

ist "localhost\.localdomain"))' &

(0) Attempting to connect to the Festival server.

Successfully opened connection to Festival.

festival> (audio_mode 'async)
INIT: Starting loop.
emacspeak: tts_set_speech_rate 225
emacspeak: tts_sync_state some 0 0 1 225
Unexpected EOF in Festival socket

emacspeak with eflite is working fine.

[Fred Maranhăo]

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I retrieved version 1.6 of espeakf.pl and worked well. So I
think that the problem is not exclusive of my instalation.

[Aaron Bingham]

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Hi Fred,

I'm afraid I don't have enough information to try to reproduce your problem. Could you please check if this is still an issue. If so, we can investigate further.

Thanks,

Aaron

[Aaron Bingham]

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Hi Fred,

I have seen similar behavior if the Festival port is busy. This case should admittedly be handled better.

Regards,

Aaron