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