Hi James, Is there a string of text, like "hello" that you can use to send text out for testing? I do this in DOS, for testing synthesizers, but I don't know how to do it in Unix/Linux. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "james collins" <james.collins75@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 7:52 PM Subject: Re: Unix I did edit the yasr.conf file. I had overwriten the settings in the configuration file using command line arguments. One thing I did was call the maker of the serial cable adaptor, which I bought to use with my doubletalk, the guy told me I could download a driver for the serial cable. Tomorrow I am planning on downloading and installing the driver. Just wondering why yasr worked with freetts and not my doubletalk? When I ran yasr it wouldn't even let me type at the terminal, just wondering what is wrong? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Pia <pmikeal at comcast.net> wrote: > Don't forget to edit your yasr.conf file to reflect your use of the > doubletalk as opposed to the freetts software. > > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, james collins wrote: > >> I just got back my doubletalk speech synthesizer. If I have the >> configuration correct, should I be able to start yasr with a command >> >> yasr >> >> I can't get the doubletalk to talk, I had shipped to rc systems and >> they told me it was working. I am able to get yasr working with >> freetts but not with the double talk, when I type yasr at the >> command line I get a prompt and my doubletalk doesen't speak, I >> also am not able to type when yasr is running. I have none of these >> issues when using yasr with freetts. I have tried using a different >> serial port, using a null modem cable. Switching into the directory >> where the executable yasr file is and trying to run yasr from >> there, all attempts have failed, any help would be appreciated. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I don't think it matters whether there is quote marks around the >>> 127.0.0.1:2222. The script worked on my system. >>> What I guess is happening is that freetts is not started. Either >>> the time it waits before launching YASR is too short (I wouldn't >>> imagine 10 seconds being too short, so think this option is >>> unlikely) or there is something wrong in starting freetts (the >>> more likely option). The one obvious difference between my system >>> and yours which may be causing this is the location of the >>> FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file. Did you edit the line beginning >>> FREETTS_JAR to point to the correct file? Please note: when I say >>> it should point to the FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file I mean this >>> must be the complete absolute path, not a relative path (IE. it >>> should be the way you could refer to the file from any directory, >>> on windows this would be things like c:\somedir\freetts-1.2\bin >>> \FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar or on my linux machine it is /freetts/ >>> freetts-1.2/bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar). >>> Michael Whapples >>> On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins wrote: >>>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.1.441) Database version: 6.13000 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.1.441) Database version: 6.13000 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/
