[16:41] <charlie-tca> TheMuso: Is the accessible install working for oneiric yet?
[19:15] <fredo> AlanBell: You said I could ask you for help setting up OpenMary as a speechd module.
[19:15] <fredo> AlanBell: So here I am. :-)
[19:17] <maco> he might be having dinner right now. stick around a bit
[19:18] <maco> (it's 8pm in his zone)
[19:20] <fredo> maco: Thanks, I will.
[20:14] <AlanBell> maco: I was actually having beer :)
[20:15] <AlanBell> hi fredo 
[20:18] <fredo> Hi AlanBell!
[20:19] <fredo> I tried to follow your article, but unfortunately without success.
[20:20] <fredo> speech-dispatcher was configured on a per-user basis, so that was the first issue.
[20:20] <fredo> I’m running Lucid, so maybe that changed.
[20:21] <fredo> Now I have the config in the right place (.speech-dispatcher/conf/), but it crashes when I try to use the openmary module.
[20:23] <AlanBell> does it produce any output when it crashes?
[20:24] <fredo> Yes, I get a backtrace.
[20:25] <AlanBell> does $TMPDIR/openmary.wav exist
[20:25] <AlanBell> probably /tmp/openmary.wav
[20:25] <AlanBell> that is where it puts the temporary audio file it downloads
[20:26] <fredo> No, it doesn’t.
[20:26] <AlanBell> !paste
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[20:26] <AlanBell> can you put the backtrace in a pastebin so I can see it
[20:27] <fredo> http://paste.ubuntu.com/656645/
[20:33] <AlanBell> for me the "-l de" doesn't work
[20:33] <AlanBell> I never tested or coded for it to pass through the language string, although it should really
[20:34] <AlanBell> "LOCALE=en_GB" is hard coded in the call to the openmary server
[20:34] <AlanBell> does it talk without the -l de bit?
[20:35] <fredo> Nope.
[20:35] <fredo> Same error.
[20:36] <fredo> I checked the Mary server log, and it doesn’t even get a request.
[20:36] <AlanBell> yeah, it isn't getting that far at all
[20:39] <fredo> The openmary.log seems to reveal nothing unusual.
[20:39] <AlanBell> how did you set up speech dispatcher to do per user stuff? I just put the config file in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules
[20:40] <AlanBell> are the permissions on your config file going to allow speech dispatcher to read it?
[20:42] <fredo> I didn’t set that up, I just figured out that my changes in /etc/ had no effect.
[20:42] <fredo> So I put things into ~/.speech-dispatcher, and that seemed to work.
[20:43] <fredo> Well, or not, in this case.
[20:43] <AlanBell> spd-say -o broken "Guten Abend"
[20:43] <AlanBell> what does that do?
[20:43] <AlanBell> intentionally referencing a module that doesn't exist
[20:43] <fredo> It works.
[20:43] <AlanBell> I think it should fall back to espeak
[20:44] <fredo> Yes, probably.
[20:44] <AlanBell> ok, so it knows the openmary module exists at least
[20:44] <AlanBell> and trys to load it
[20:45] <fredo> Yes, and it does so successfully, given the log message in speech-dispatcher.log.
[20:45] <fredo> Even the openmary.log seems to be okay.
[20:46] <AlanBell> I might have a lucid VM kicking about for some other stuff, I will try installing it there
[20:48] <fredo> I will also install Oneiric on my dev machine next week, and since I’m planning to target that version for my experiments, I can see if it works there.
[20:48] <fredo> If that still fails, I could still come back to you.
[20:57]  * phillw btw, if any one needs some testing on VM, I would be happy to do so. I'd need telling what you wish me to test though!
[22:10] <TheMuso> charlie-tca: Not quite, my work likely won't be merged till after alpha 3 now, just because I've been trying to troubleshoot a few problems I have run into with setting stuff in the newly created user during install, particularly relating to gsettings.
[22:10] <TheMuso> I do feel that I am on top of them however.
[22:11] <charlie-tca> Okay, no problem. I just want to know if it is worth trying to test for the milestone. 
[22:11] <charlie-tca> Got enough testing to do, without fighting something that isn't ready to test :)
[22:19] <TheMuso> Right.
[22:19] <TheMuso> Since feature freeze is next Thursday, it will certainly be in by then.
[22:23] <charlie-tca> Good enough. 
[22:23] <charlie-tca> Thank you