[Flightgear-devel] Re: Festival

[Melchior F. <mf...@ao...>]

* syd -- Wednesday 22 February 2006 10:40:
> Everything seems to go fine , but no voices. Flightgear logs say
> VOICE: something is listening to localhost:1314, but it doesnt seem to 
> be Festival.

This is a plausibility check. If a channel to the configured host:port
is openend in festival mode, then the voice subsystem sends an empty
message (SayText "") and expects "LP" as reply. If this is not the case,
then it assumes that there is no Festival listening. Could you check
that manually by telnetting into Festival and checking the reply?

  $ telnet localhost 1314
  Trying 127.0.0.1...
  Connected to localhost.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  (SayText "hello")                         <-- enter this
  LP
  #<Utterance 0x403d97a8>
  ft_StUfF_keyOK
  (quit)                                    <-- and this
  ER
  Connection closed by foreign host.
  $

I could take this check out without causing much trouble, but I'd
rather like to know what happens here.

m.