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Sun Aug 9 20:52:21 EDT 2009

I did edit the yasr.conf file. I had overwriten the settings in the  
configuration file using command line arguments. One thing I did was  
call the maker of the serial cable adaptor, which I bought to use with  
my doubletalk, the guy told me I could download a driver for the  
serial cable. Tomorrow I am planning on downloading and installing the  
driver. Just wondering why yasr worked with freetts and not my  
doubletalk? When I ran yasr it wouldn't even let me type at the  
terminal, just wondering what is wrong?

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On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Pia <pmikeal at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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