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Don't forget to edit your yasr.conf file to reflect your use of the 
doubletalk as opposed to the freetts software.

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, james collins wrote:

> 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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