On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, james collins wrote: > I am looking at yasr.conf, in my text editor textwrangler I took the # remark > character out on the line where doubletalk is. Should I comment emacspeak > server? I think this is the default synthesizer but not sure? One thing I > want to be able to do, is use yasr with lynx a text based Internet web > browser I got awhile back. I don't know what emacspeak server is, should I > comment this line out? Also I don't know about the port the default is You do not want the emacspeak server. That is for software speech synthesizers not for the doubletalk > > synthesizer port=|/usr/local/bin/eflite > eflite is a software tts and so again you want to comment it out because it is not the doubletalk > And there is two port that are # commented out > > #synthesizer port=s0 > #synthesizer port=l0 port=s0 is the one you want to uncomment because s0 is a serial port, and I assume you are using your double talk on a serial port? If you are then s0 is comm 1 and s1 is comm 2 if the PC language helps. l0 i believe is the parallel port although if I am wrong, someone please correct me. > > Don't really know what port to use. I have a couple of different USB ports on > my laptop, would they both have different designations? I wonder how I could > find out what each of my USB ports is named? Thanks for your help so far! > They would but I am not sure if any USB synth works with yasr or not. I know that in Linux the USB Dectalk has to be used in RS232 mode with the old serial port, but MacOS would be totally different I would assume since its hardware driver is different. If anyone knows, feel free to speak up, eheheh, pun intended. > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote: > >> It looks as though your installation works. If you get an executable file, >> chances are it did work properly. I'm not sure where the config file would >> be on a Mac system, since the directory structure is very much different >> from other Unix systems, so if your machine has a search feature, you may >> want to try looking for yasr.conf. >> >> Selecting your synthesizer is, as you say, a simple matter of removing the >> remark # character from the beginning of the line with its name and being >> sure that every other synthesizer's line does begin with the character. You >> will need to do the same for the port where the Doubletalk is connected. >> >> Kyle >> >> -- >> Jesus you're my life. >> I live only to serve You >> Each and every day. >> --Kyle >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
