Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote: > Hello, > It sounds like things are quite successful. Let's see if yasr > actually works, we can do this before you have everything sorted > with the doubletalk (although getting it to work with that would > possibly be the best thing in the long term). To try it out we can > use freetts for software speech output, as I said hopefully you can > get the doubletalk working later if you don't like the freetts voice > (I am not a great fan of freetts's voices). > I typed man java at the command line and got back a bunch of info, so I am assuming I have java installed. I went to the library a little while ago and downloaded the freets bin file. > OK, so to get freetts working you will need java installed (I don't > know whether the mac comes with java preinstalled), but if it > doesn't I wouldn't imagine it would be the hardest thing to get and > install. Now download freetts from http://freetts.sf.net. You only > need the binary version (I used freetts-1.2.2-bin.zip). Unzip the > zipfile somewhere, and change to the directory in which it was > unpacked. Now start it as an emacspeak server with a command like: > java -jar bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar > and hopefully you will get output saying about it starting and which > voice it is using and that it is listening on port 2222. > Unfortunately that above command doesn't return you to a shell > prompt so either you will need to start another or add the & after > the command, like so: > java -jar bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar & > Now we can start yasr. The following command I will give means you > need not set up the configuration file, although in the longer term > you will probably want to so as to avoid the extra typing. > yasr -s "emacspeak server" -p 127.0.0.1:2222 Is this all one line, and do I need the " around emacspeak server right? Just out of curiosity do you know what the 127.0.0.1:2222 is for? Earlier you said freets will say something like listening on port 2222, what does listening mean, I wonder? > > Hopefully now you will have yasr talking. > > A couple of notes about the above: > * You must remember to start freetts as an emacspeak server before > trying to use yasr. > * By providing the -s and -p options to yasr it doesn't matter what > the setting for synthesiser and synthesiser port are in yasr.conf as > the options take priority. > * You may want to put some of the above into a shell script so you > always have a way to start yasr with freetts, but only ever need the > one command (I did find an example of one on the web, I think it was > written for solaris, but it might be a good starting point for you > to adapt it for the paths and such like which are specific to mac). > > Let us know if you get the above working, if so it hopefully will > only be a small matter to get the doubletalk working. > > Michael Whapples > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
