speech-dispatcher fails to open in Hardy

[Stormdragon]

After downloading speech-dispatcher and python-speechd, when using spd-say, I get the error:
client: speech-dispatcher failed to open: connection refused
speech-dispatcher also does not show up in Orca speech system combo box.
I have tried this on 2 laptops, one a Compaq c500, the other a Gateway, I can't remember the model for the Gateway.

[Stormdragon (stormdragon2976)]

I tried starting speech-dispatcher with the commands:
speech-dispatcher -d
and also:
speech-dispatcher -s
The first starts it as a daemon the second starts it as a single application. Both of the commands gave the following error:
can't create pid file in /var/run/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.pid
wrong permissions?

[Zed Burnett (chophshiy)]

I have the same problems under 8.10/intrepid. Why on earth is this still marked as "new" under status?

[Michael Welbers (mwelbers)]

I have the same Problem by using NavIt under 8.10 / intrepid

[Michael Welbers (mwelbers)]

The Problem also exist under 8.04 / Hardy

[Michael Welbers (mwelbers)]

I have modified the File /etc/default/speech-dispatcher:
RUN_SPEECHD = yes

After reboot the Daemon starts automatically

[paddy (paddydd)]

I made the change described in Post # 5 ( I changed the value for RUN_SPEECHD to yes) and my system hung on boot.
I don't know why but I was able via recovery mode to change the setting back to "no" and then my system was able to boot.

I am using a DELL GX270 with UBUNTU 9.02.

Paddy

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test a current Ubuntu 10.10 or Natty Narwhal. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 229184, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

I did attempt to reproduce this issue in Ubuntu Natty Narwhal, the current development version, and was not able to.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for speech-dispatcher (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]