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[james collins]

Should I be able to use yasr with the command

yasr



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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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