UPDATED from original post.

I tried you're simpler test script with $voice->talk, and it wouldn't even work without cgi. If you find the answer, let us know. I'm interested in learning about using sockets in modules, and there seems to be a trick to it, which eludes me. Like you it works from a conventional script. I did get it working from a simple procedural style module, but as soon as I put the $socket into a $self->{CONN} form, it gives a broken pipe. It has to be they way the socket gets stored in the scalar. Either a reference to the scalar needs to be used, or the socket needs to be stored as a full fledged hash? I just started reading my Object Oriented Perl, but hav'nt got far enough yet. :-) 

package Voice2;
use IO::Socket;

$handle = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto     => "tcp",
                               PeerAddr  => "localhost",
                               PeerPort  => 1314)
                                || die($!);

sub talk {
print $handle "(SayText \"Testing.\")";

}

1;

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Test script 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib '.';
use Voice2;

Voice2::talk;
exit;

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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re^3: Festival Module by zentara
in thread Broken Pipe error when talking to Festival server by rsiedl

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