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[james collins]

I just got back my doubletalk speech synthesizer. If I have the  
configuration correct, should I be able to start yasr with a command

yasr

I can't get the doubletalk to talk, I had shipped to rc systems and  
they told me it was working. I am able to get yasr working with  
freetts but not with the double talk, when I type yasr at the command  
line I get a prompt and my doubletalk doesen't speak, I also am not  
able to type when yasr is running. I have none of these issues when  
using yasr with freetts. I have tried using a different serial port,  
using a null modem cable. Switching into the directory where the  
executable yasr file is and trying to run yasr from there, all  
attempts have failed, any help would be appreciated.

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:

> I don't think it matters whether there is quote marks around the  
> 127.0.0.1:2222. The script worked on my system.
>
> What I guess is happening is that freetts is not started. Either the  
> time it waits before launching YASR is too short (I wouldn't imagine  
> 10 seconds being too short, so think this option is unlikely) or  
> there is something wrong in starting freetts (the more likely  
> option). The one obvious difference between my system and yours  
> which may be causing this is the location of the  
> FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file. Did you edit the line beginning  
> FREETTS_JAR to point to the correct file? Please note: when I say it  
> should point to the FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file I mean this must  
> be the complete absolute path, not a relative path (IE. it should be  
> the way you could refer to the file from any directory, on windows  
> this would be things like c:\somedir\freetts-1.2\bin 
> \FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar or on my linux machine it is /freetts/ 
> freetts-1.2/bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar).
>
> Michael Whapples
>
>
> On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins wrote:
>> I was looking at the script, should there be quotes around the last  
>> line where it
>>
>> says "127.0.0.1:2222"
>>
>> I thought I had the script working but now it won't connect to yasr.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a script (attached). Before use you may want to alter some  
>>> of the locations I have used. The most important one is the  
>>> location of the FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file. So open the  
>>> script in any text editor and edit the line which says:
>>> FREETTS_JAR="/freetts/freetts-1.2/bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar"
>>>
>>> Change the contents of the quoted part of the line to whatever the  
>>> absolute filename is for the FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file.
>>>
>>> You may also need to alter the contents of the quoted parts of the  
>>> lines beginning JAVA_CMD and YASR_CMD if you can't just give the  
>>> command java or yasr (probably not needed).
>>>
>>> To use this script you will need to run it using something like sh  
>>> (I am making an assumption that sh is the shell on mac), eg. a  
>>> command like:
>>> sh yasr-freetts
>>>
>>> (assumed that the script is in the directory you are currently in).
>>>
>>> This script may take a little time to load yasr, that is because  
>>> it waits for a few seconds to ensure freetts has actually started.  
>>> You should be able to reduce this time by editing the line:
>>> sleep 10
>>>
>>> by giving a lower integer value than 10.
>>>
>>> Hope that works. If editing the script seems risky/something you  
>>> would prefer not to do then it probably will work if you unzip  
>>> freetts in a directory /freetts (IE. so that you have the  
>>> FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar file in the location /freetts/ 
>>> freetts-1.2/bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar).
>>>
>>> Michael Whapples
>>> On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins wrote:
>>>> 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
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>>>>
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