Package: flite Version: 1.4-release-2 Severity: important On Squeeze Beta 1, I can't get flite module to work in speech-dispatcher. espeak works fine however.
The contents of my /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf file: CommunicationMethod "unix_socket" SocketName "default" LogLevel 3 LogDir "default" DefaultRate 0 DefaultPitch 0 DefaultVolume 100 DefaultVoiceType "MALE1" DefaultLanguage "en" AudioOutputMethod "alsa" AddModule "flite" "sd_flite" "flite.conf" AddModule "dummy" "sd_dummy" "" DefaultModule flite Include "/etc/speech-dispatcher/clients/*.conf" Include "clients/*.conf" The contents of /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/flite.conf: FliteMaxChunkLength 500 FliteDelimiters ".?!;" Debug 1 Steps to repeat: 1. /etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher start 2. spd-say hello 3. Note that speech-dispatcher CPU usage will spike to 100% and no audio will be heard. The tail of /var/log/speech-dispatcher/flite.log: Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645572]: In stripping ssml: |hello| Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645613]: Flite: leaving write() normally ^M Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645626]: Semaphore on Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645688]: Printing reply: 701 BEGIN Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645706]: Printed Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645722]: Returned 5 bytes from get_part Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645737]: Text to synthesize is 'hello' Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645753]: Speaking in child... Wed Nov 17 23:11:55 2010 [645767]: Trying to synthesize text VAL: tried to access cart in -1 type val The tail of /var/log/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.log: [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 762244] speechd: Output module is logging to file /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher/log//flite.log [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 762503] speechd: Module flite loaded. [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 772194] speechd: LINE here:|304 CANT LIST VOICES| [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 772222] speechd: Module flite started sucessfully with message: ..... [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776428] speechd: Reading configuration for pattern *:gnomespeech:* [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776476] speechd: Reading configuration for pattern emacs:* [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776537] speechd: Reading configuration for pattern *:gnomespeech:* [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776645] speechd: Reading configuration for pattern emacs:* [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776691] speechd: Configuration has been read from "/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf" [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776718] speechd: Speech Dispatcher Logging to file /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher/log//speech-dispatcher.log [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776733] speechd: Speech Dispatcher started with 2 output modules [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 776747] speechd: Speech Dispatcher will use local unix socket: /var/run/speech-dispatcher/.speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock [Wed Nov 17 23:20:02 2010 : 777175] speechd: Speech Dispatcher started and waiting for clients ... [Wed Nov 17 23:20:09 2010 : 585349] speechd: Connection closed Other info: cecil:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep flite flite install flite1-dev install libflite1 install Now if I change my speechd.conf to use espeak it works fine. The reason why I'm using flite is because from my experience on Lenny, flite is more stable. On Lenny, espeak would get into a bad state in speech-dispatcher and spd would start consuming 100% CPU and not work anymore. On Lenny, flite did not have this issue. Now on Squeeze, I'm getting a similar behavior. espeak+speech-dispatcher on Squeeze will cause it to spike to 100% CPU sometimes. I'm trying with flite in the hope that it will be more stable just like it was on Lenny. I also like the flite voice better. So right now I pretty much cannot use speech-dispatcher because I can't find a module that will be stable with it. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages flite depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.5 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libflite1 1.4-release-2 a small run-time speech synthesis flite recommends no packages. Versions of packages flite suggests: ii alsa-base 1.0.23+dfsg-2 ALSA driver configuration files -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
