[pygame] Getting Festival to play nice with Pygame?

["Steven M. Castellotti" <SteveC@innocent.com>]

hey all--

	I'm attempting to use both Festival (The Text-To-Speech synthesizer)
and Pygame simultaneously in my application. To be exact, my application
is loading up the "festival_server" daemon during program
initialization, and later feeding text to the daemon by connecting to it
directly.

	If I just use Festival, everything works perfectly fine. If I load
Festival and then Pygame, I never get any TTS output. If I load Pygame
and then Festival, I get TTS output maybe once or twice out of every ten
times I load the program (making no changes to the code in between). 

	Also, I notice that sometimes when I load my program, I get this error
when Pygame initializes:

esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
Try -trust to force esd to start.
esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket:
/tmp/.esd/socket
The socket is not accessible by esd.
Exiting...


	I don't get this error consistently. Festival *only* works when I get
this error, but not *every time* I get this error.


	It's all all a little confusing, but as far as I can tell, when esd
fails to load, Festival works fine. I'm loading the daemon through an 
os.fork() call, as so:

result = os.fork()

if result == 0:
  os.execlp("festival_server", "festival_server", "-c", \
            "festival_server.config")
else:
  self.pid = result


	Some of the inconsistency is no doubt because the festival_server is
loading in the background, although I've inserted time.sleep() calls in
various parts to try and locate exactly where things are going wrong.

	Can anyone give me any pointers? Thanks in advance.

-Steve Castellotti
 SteveC@innocent.com
 http://cogengine.sourceforge.net/

PS: I'm running RedHat 7.3, stock kernel, and Pygame 1.5



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