I switched to a directory called freets-1 and ran the following command java -jar bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar & And got an error message Unable to access jarfile bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar I think it couldn't find the file, so I changed into a directory called freets-1.2 and reran the above command. Then my computer wrote Using voice: kevin16 System property "mbrola base" is undefined. Will not use MBROLA voices. Waiting on ServerSocket [addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=2222] My cursor is waiting for me. And I didn't hear anything from my computer? Like I have the volume all the way up but I didn't hear anything from my speakers. Just wondering what to do now, can I hit enter to exit freetts? Maybe I have to set something up in freets, I read one of the readme files and it talked about the lib folder and said something about agreeing to a license and running a command to get some additional files? What should I do? 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). > > 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 > > 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
