[misterhouse-users] Viavoice ASR and TTS at the same time

[Gary P. <Gar...@es...>]

Is it possible?  Hi guys, I've just installed MH 2.70 and have been playing
around with it for the last few days.  I have installed viavoice and the TTS
rpms and Brad's Perl module as instructed.  Both the TTS and ASR software
work perfectly using the demo software that comes with the installs, and
both also work with MH, but my problem happens when I run the
viavoice_server_start.  The server starts up and will patiently wait for my
commands, but MH can no longer speak!!  /dev/dsp it reports is busy in use
by another program (lsof reports it's the viavoice engine).  As soon as I
kill the viavoice_server, MH starts up it's nattering again!!  I am using
the Redhat7.3 default sound system, and have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold,
which supposedly supports full-duplex.   I've also tried it with festival
and get exactly the same thing happening.  

Anyone want to put me out of my misery or am I looking at putting in a
second box to do the talking?  

Thanks a million

Gary



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