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Jovie doesn't speak the time.

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ooker
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Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:54 pm
I set the speak time to every 10 minutes but its respond is dangerously silently quite. More info: because of the removal of Jovie in my distro (Netrunner), I have to sudo apt-get install jovie. At first, it worked well, but after some restarts, it doesn't work anymore.
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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:08 pm
Which version of kde do you have? Does jovie speak anything else (try right clicking the system tray icon and choosing speak clipboard contents)?
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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:42 am
KDE version: 4.11.5, Jovie version: 0.6.0. It seems that Jovie won't speak anymore. I also try to go to its setting, choose speak file but it keeps no respond.
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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:11 am
Sounds like the Speech backend might be missing. Is speech-dispatcher installed?


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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:15 pm
Another thing to try is "spd-say hello" in a terminal. That calls speech-dispatcher directly and should work if speech-dispatcher is installed.
If that works but jovie doesn't try running spd-conf to setup speech-dispatcher again.
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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:08 am
Yesterday I had apt-get update and things seem to be find. Don't know if this really solve my problem or just a coincident. Anyway, thank you for helping.
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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Sat May 03, 2014 8:01 am
It doesn't work again. The only commands I used yesterday (which I think it might affect a whole system) are apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Besides, I also deleted some default games.
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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Sat May 03, 2014 10:39 pm
Which synthesizer is jovie set to use (just the default maybe)? Also, does sdp-say "hello" work? I bet speech-dispatcher crashed or something when it was updated/upgraded probably. Does restarting (or just logging out and back in) help?
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Re: Jovie doesn't speak the time.

Sun May 04, 2014 3:56 pm
It works again without any attempt to fix it. Weird, right?
In spite of that, when I use sdp-say "hello", the terminal appears "command not found" althout speech-dispatcher is already the newest version.


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