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GoofyHMG
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 Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: Speeched wont work with Cron daemon or su to root |
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I can do this when I log in as my regular user and it works with mbrola voice
echo "I'm this annoying little blonde speaking from a Gentoo Box" | festival --tts
however when I try to put it on a cron job or even su to root and do the same i get the following wither in a terminal window or dead.letter.
sh: mbrola: command not found
Cannot open file /tmp/est_09158_00000.au as tokenstream
Wave load: can't open file "/tmp/est_09158_00000.au"
Cannot load wavefile: /tmp/est_09158_00000.au
does anyone have a clue? |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: Re: Speeched wont work with Cron daemon or su to root |
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| GoofyHMG wrote: | I can do this when I log in as my regular user and it works with mbrola voice
echo "I'm this annoying little blonde speaking from a Gentoo Box" | festival --tts
however when I try to put it on a cron job or even su to root and do the same i get the following wither in a terminal window or dead.letter.
sh: mbrola: command not found
Cannot open file /tmp/est_09158_00000.au as tokenstream
Wave load: can't open file "/tmp/est_09158_00000.au"
Cannot load wavefile: /tmp/est_09158_00000.au
does anyone have a clue? |
The first line of the above is the bash shell telling you that it can't find the command 'mbrola' which is likely to be something that festival is calling.
As a user open a terminal and type...
This will tell you where the mbrola executable is located. Repeat this as root and your likely to get something similar to....
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# which mbrola
which: no mbrola in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)
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You either need to add the directory that mbrola is located in to root's PATH (an appropriate entry in /root/.bashrc will do this) or place a symbolic link in /sbin or /bin or /usr/sbin or /usr/bin to the location of mbrola so that its in root's PATH environment.
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GoofyHMG
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: somewhat fixed |
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Thanks for the help that fixed my cron jobs
I did the following ln -s /opt/bin/mbrola mbrola
Although this wasn't the original post when I do it from the terminal session I get this
echo "Hello" | festival --tts
ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor
Any idea on that It kinda doesn't make sense why it would work with any other user and not root? |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Re: somewhat fixed |
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| GoofyHMG wrote: | Thanks for the help that fixed my cron jobs
I did the following ln -s /opt/bin/mbrola mbrola
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I assume you were in one of the directories that is in root's path when you did this (i.e. /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)?
| GoofyHMG wrote: | Thanks for the help that fixed my cron jobs
Although this wasn't the original post when I do it from the terminal session I get this
echo "Hello" | festival --tts
ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor
Any idea on that It kinda doesn't make sense why it would work with any other user and not root? |
Not sure what the cause of this might be (I've never used festival myself). Sounds like it may not like the piping of "Hello" as there is no file description, does it throw the same message when you pass it a text file that contains "Hello"...
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echo "Hello" > /tmp/text.txt && festival --tts /tmp/test.txt
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GoofyHMG
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:48 am Post subject: |
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yes i was in the /usr/bin directory when I created the soft link
I tried your recommendation with the text file but I get the same error.
localhost / # festival --tts /tmp/text.txt
ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| GoofyHMG wrote: | yes i was in the /usr/bin directory when I created the soft link
I tried your recommendation with the text file but I get the same error.
localhost / # festival --tts /tmp/text.txt
ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor |
I've no idea I'm afraid, as I said I've not used festival for anything. Perhaps the mailing list at festival project might be of use.
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GoofyHMG
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| hey dont worry you kinda got me what I wanted. I am going to continue searching for the answer and if I find it I will post it here. Thanks for the help!!! |
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thewtex
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GoofyHMG
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: |
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thewtex thanks for the input on the ESD error that worked!!!
Is there a reason why I cant put that line in the server.scm file? I tried putting it in there but it did nothing. I though things in these files were interchangeable.
Anyway, I just put this
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE") (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
in the ~/.festivalrc file and it worked... |
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thewtex
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:43 am Post subject: |
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not server.scm but /etc/festival/siteinit.scm
also regarding your initial post, it was probably because you did not have the mbrola USE flag enabled on festival[/b] |
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