Problem with Xastir festival and Rasbian

[kb1chu]

I installed Raspbian from NOOBS. I installed Xastir and Festival. I start up Festival server and then start Xastir. All is OK so far and it works except for one problem. The speech option boxes are greyed out and are not clickable. If you click on the Test button I hear the "Welcome to Xastir" audio. I had to load the speech files to the audio alarms and they are working fine. I really want the text to speech option to work and am at a loss to set it up. I am new to Linux but have been muddling through it.Thanks Steve KB1CHU

[paulie]

Check whether xastir is compiled to use festival.
Click on help menu (to right of interface menu) & select 'About' option.
This will show what options are compiled in.
I think the first xastir in Raspbian repo was compiled without festival support.

I had to compile from source to get it to work.

Just recompiled from source & mine stopped working too!

From memory, when configuring I had to do

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sudo configure --with-festival

To compile I did

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sudo make -j4

The j4 flag uses 4 threads (on Pi2) to shorten compile time.

My problem might be that the festival server isn't running at boot time.


I posted some instructions a while back when I first ran into problems,
So I need to look at them myself. (Found your old post while searching!)

And while I think about it, Xastir *always* starts without new Callsign announcement (in case you are receiving internet APRS traffic)

[paulie]

I have run into a problem, highlighted in this thread:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 8&t=100656

Not only is the resetting of the i2ckiss interface not happening (in .xinitrc file), but festival -- server is not being actioned there either.

I haven't had a reply as to why .xinitrc method has stopped working.

I started xastir from an xterm, & got a message that it couldn't contact the festival server. Checking ps -ax shows the server isn't running.