Speech Dispatcher under alsa

[Willem van der Walt]

This is very useful!
Thanks, Willem


On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Hynek Hanke wrote:

> Steve Holmes pí?e v St 15. 03. 2006 v 16:29 -0700:
>> Is there any possibility that a future version of speech-dispatcher
>> would include a run time parameter to choose synthesiser module?
>
> This is possible in Speech Dispatcher. The command to do it is
>
> SET {self|all|ID} OUTPUT_MODULE module-name
>
> where module-name is the name of the synthesizer as defined
> in speech-dispatcher.conf.
>
> It is not documented, however, because we are still not sure if this
> should be a part of SSIP or there should be another mechanism (e.g.
> completely symbolic voices mapped to synthesizers in the configuration).
> It is not guaranteed it will stay in SSIP in future versions in this
> form.
>
> An inconvenience is Speakup doesn't have a command for switching
> synthesizers, so speechd-up doesn't support this.
>
> However, it is still possible to do it externally from another
> connection to Dispatcher. Most parameter settings in Speech Dispatcher
> have a parameter from the set {self|ID|all} which signifies what
> connections the setting should be applied to.
>
> In SSIP, you must first determine the ID of the connection you want
> to change the module for.  This, you can do through HISTORY GET
> CLIENT_LIST . See documentation for SSIP in info or in the source tree
> in doc/ or on http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd/ .
>
> It works like this:
>
> hanke at chopin:~$ telnet localhost 6560
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to chopin.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> history get client_list
> 240-1 "test:speakup:softsynth" 1
> 240-2 "hanke:spd-say:main" 0
> 240-3 "hanke:spd-say:main" 0
> 240-4 "hanke:spd-say:main" 0
> 240-5 "hanke:spd-say:main" 0
> 240-6 "hanke:spd-say:main" 0
> 240-7 "hanke:spd-say:main" 0
> 240-8 "hanke:spd-say:main" 0
> 240 OK CLIENTS LIST SENT
>
> You are interested in connections where the identification string
> includes "speakup" and where the third parameter (active) is 1. The
> first parameter is then the IDs of the connection.
>
> For these IDs, you should call
> SET ID OUTPUT_MODULE "module"
> where ID is the number you read from HISTORY GET CLIENT_LIST. If you
> have more (n) of them (not likely for speechd-up :), you have to call
> this command n times.
>
> set 1 output_module flite
> 216 OK OUTPUT MODULE SET
>
> A simpler, immediate way, to do it, is to just call
> SET ALL OUTPUT_MODULE module-name and set it for all connections.
> However, it will also affect other clients to Speech Dispatcher,
> so I don't advise you to do it unless you know it is what you want.
>
> If you want to do this from a shell script, you might use the spdsend
> utility distributed with Speech Dispatcher (docs in
> src/c/clients/spd-send/README) to take care of the socket communication
> for you. Or you can use one of the programming language interfaces.
>
> You can also modify other parameters which are not possible to set from
> speechd-up this way.
>
> With regards,
> Hynek Hanke
>
>
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