Problem with 6.5rc1

[Hynek Hanke]

Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> If I, as a regular user, do 'speech-dispatcher -P sd.pid', I get the
> following error message:
> Tue Nov 27 10:20:14 2007 [23511] ALSA: Closing ALSA device
> Tue Nov 27 10:20:14 2007 [23945] ALSA: ALSA closed.
>   
Hello Lars,

if the above message is printed out to your terminal, you also do not have
a correct setting of the LogDir variable in speechd.conf. For running Speech
Dispatcher as a user, I recommend to follow this procedure:
http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/speech-dispatcher_9.html#SEC24

That will give you your own configuration files for the specific user and
a place in ~/.speech-dispatcher/ for logfiles and pidfiles for this user
without any need to specify these paths on the command line
(via -P and -C).

However, I also believe the primary cause of the fact that you do not
get speech is wrong permissions to the audio device.

With regards,
Hynek Hanke