Slight progress: paul@wollumbin ~ $ SPEECHD_ADDRESS=unix_socket:/home/paul/.cache/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock spd-say hello works. Also the following python works out of the box:
paul@wollumbin ~ $ python3 Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 20 2013, 14:44:27) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import speechd >>> client = speechd.SSIPClient('test') >>> client.speak("Hello World!") # pause here >>> client.close() I don't understand yet, but it seems that the files of speech-dispatcher on my system are scattered over: ~/.cache/speech-dispatcher ~/.config/speech-dispatcher and ~/.speech-dispatcher and they don't work together. @ Jarek, please confirm that the .cache folder contains the logging you were searching Paul
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