I was looking at the script, should there be quotes around the last line where it says "127.0.0.1:2222" I thought I had the script working but now it won't connect to yasr. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote: > Here is a script (attached). Before use you may want to alter some > of the locations I have used. The most important one is the location > of the FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file. So open the script in any > text editor and edit the line which says: > FREETTS_JAR="/freetts/freetts-1.2/bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar" > > Change the contents of the quoted part of the line to whatever the > absolute filename is for the FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file. > > You may also need to alter the contents of the quoted parts of the > lines beginning JAVA_CMD and YASR_CMD if you can't just give the > command java or yasr (probably not needed). > > To use this script you will need to run it using something like sh > (I am making an assumption that sh is the shell on mac), eg. a > command like: > sh yasr-freetts > > (assumed that the script is in the directory you are currently in). > > This script may take a little time to load yasr, that is because it > waits for a few seconds to ensure freetts has actually started. You > should be able to reduce this time by editing the line: > sleep 10 > > by giving a lower integer value than 10. > > Hope that works. If editing the script seems risky/something you > would prefer not to do then it probably will work if you unzip > freetts in a directory /freetts (IE. so that you have the > FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file in the location /freetts/freetts-1.2/ > bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar). > > Michael Whapples > On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins wrote: >> That would be great, about the script. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 31, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello James, >>> Sounds like you got freetts working fine when you swapped into the >>> freetts-1.2 directory (that was the directory I had actually meant >>> you to switch to after unpacking the zip file). I wouldn't expect >>> freetts to actually say anything when you launch it with the >>> command: >>> java -jar bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar & >>> >>> but all the output you mentioned which appears on the terminal is >>> correct as I would expect. >>> >>> To get freetts to talk, you need something to tell it what to say, >>> that's where yasr comes in, just run the command: >>> yasr -s "emacspeak server" -p 127.0.0.1:2222 >>> >>> (above yasr command should all be on one line and as said by >>> someone else the quote marks should be used). >>> >>> Hopefully after you enter the yasr command you will hear speech, >>> in which case yasr works! >>> >>> If you want I can try and put together a script for you to use >>> (the script would need editing to match your systems locations of >>> files (eg. where freetts is)). By having this script you would >>> only need to run one command and it would be a way of getting yasr >>> working with freetts regardless of what your yasr.conf file is >>> (IE. you would have a recovery should you misconfigure your synth). >>> >>> Michael Whapples >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > <yasr-freetts> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
