Is there text-to-speech and speech recognition for Ubuntu 8.10?
Knapp
magick.crow at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 08:27:50 UTC 2008
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:01 AM, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Larry Sheilds <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
>> *From a terminal, type espeak, hopefully it is all ready installed, then
>> type the text you want it to say...
>>
>> It works using Intrepid...
>
> Not here.
>
> dfox at newbox:~$ espeak "This is a test"
> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
> PaHost_OpenStream: could not open /dev/dsp for O_WRONLY
> PaHost_OpenStream: ERROR - result = -10000
>
> Not that this is a big deal, since I never use espeak. Sound otherwise
> works. /dev/dsp has the right permissions.
> And I'm a member of the 'audio' group.
>
>
>
>>
>> Larry
>> *
>>
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I am getting the same errors in 8.04. Strangely, at first it worked
but now I get this too.
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