Question about Speech-dispatcher

[Christian]

Hi,
Hav enot received any reply to this message. Please assist me with this.
I have created a user named speech-dispatcher.
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2008-02-20 at 22:32 Tomas Cerha wrote:

>Hello,
>
>just to avoid confusion, what Chris describes is running Speech
>Dispatcher from your user's account.
>
>There is also another option to run it as a system wide service and this
>can also be run as another user (not root), most often as the user named
>`speech-dispatcher'.
>
>My impression is, that you might have asked for later option, since this
>is what I suggested on the Orca list.  But if you are not experienced in
>system administration, I wouldn't recommend it.  You might be better
>waiting until 0.6.6 gets to Debian testing and install it from a package
>which will handle all the setup for you.  In the meantime, you can run
>SD as root (on your own risk <smile>) or do what Chris recommends.
>
>If you still think you would like to setup 0.6.6 compiled from source as
>a system wide service running as `speech-dispatcher' user, just ask
>again...
>
>Best regards
>
>Tomas
>
>C.M. Brannon wrote:
>>> Also, i have heared that it is recommended to run SD as another user
>and not root. What is the best way of setting up this if
>>>  i have compiled this from source?
>> 
>> First, create a directory, ~/.speech-dispatcher/
>> Make a subdirectory named "conf",
>> and copy your config files from /etc/speech-dispatcher/ (or wherever
>they live
>> on your box) to ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/
>> Here's what my ~/.speech-dispatcher/conf/ directory looks like:
>> clients/
>> modules/
>> speechd.conf
>> 
>> You may want to change the port on which Speech Dispatcher listens.  Do
>that
>> in conf/speechd.conf.
>> I have the line
>> Port 6562
>> in mine.  Unfortunately, spd-say seems to want to talk to port 6560, and
>> there isn't a command-line option to change that behavior.
>> (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.)
>> Other programs do allow you to specify a port.
>> If you're just running one instance of Dispatcher, using a non-standard
>> port isn't worth the trouble, IMHO.
>> 
>> This is documented in the info file that comes with Dispatcher.  I set
>> it up just now on my box, and the whole process took a minute or two.
>> 
>> Good luck,
>> -- Chris
>
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