Sound for Festival not working through remote desktop

[Eilish N]

When I try to play a sound using the instructions on the assignment through Festival on the Microsoft Remote Desktop logged in to an AT Lab Computer, nothing is playing but the command in the Terminal is successful. My laptop volume and the volume settings on the remote desktop are turned up, so not sure whats going wrong.

[Catherine Lai]

Hi Eilish,

Would you be able to put this in as help request on via IS Helpline?

https://www.ishelpline.ed.ac.uk/forms/

The lab system administrators should be able to help. I’ll also ask them, but they can give you more specific help for your setup.

cheers,
Catherine

[Eilish N]

Thank you! I’ve contacted them. I’m now having trouble with this command:
cp /Volumes/Network/courses/sp/assignment1/config.scm .
On the remote desktop it is saying that no such file or directory exists. Is this because I don’t have access?

[Catherine Lai]

I’ve checked that it should be readable to you if you can log into the machine. Can you tell me what the output is if you run the following command:

ls -lh /Volumes/Network/courses/sp/assignment1/

[Eilish N]

Hi Catherine,
This is the output I got:
ls:cannot access ‘/Volumes/Network/courses/sp/assignment1/’: No such file or directory

I’ve attached the screenshot as well!

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[Catherine Lai]

Hi Eilish,

I think you might be on the Informatics remote desktop (since the computer name on your terminal is “theorbo” (which is an informatics machine). You can try the command hostname in the terminal to check if it has an inf.ed.ac.uk name.

From what I remember, the Informatics servers do have Festival installed, but it’s an older version than the one we are using, and the voice data is not there.

The remote desktop we are using is a separate service run by PPLS (cross-school IT issues, sorry!) which you will need to connect to separately. To connect to the PPLS AT lab remote desktop, you’ll need to follow the instructions here: https://speech.zone/courses/speech-processing/module-0-getting-started/ (see Computing Requirements) and pick one of the machines from this list:

Module 0 – getting started

You’ll need to have the University VPN on for this to work (though the Informatics specific one might work as well).

cheers,
Catherine

[Eilish N]

Hi Catherine,

Thank you so much that’s working now! And has solved the sound issue as well 🙂 Thank you!

[Xueyan L]

same problem with me, while I’m using the ppls remote desktop.
I’ve raised this issue in the IS Helpline and see what the feedback is. 😂

[Antonia S]

Was this issue solved? I’m having this problem, sometimes I can hear the sound, sometimes I cannot.

[Simon]

I apologise that the Remote Desktop is unreliable for sound playback. Please can all students submit support requests to the IS Helpline about this.

Unfortunately, at the weekend, you cannot access the lab and will have to use the Remote Desktop.

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