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[james collins]

Even though it seems a little hard I think I'm going to try this. I  
need to get to the library and download a couple of things, maybe  
tomorrow, and like you said freets sounds like a good program to test  
yasr.

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On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> It sounds like things are quite successful. Let's see if yasr  
> actually works, we can do this before you have everything sorted  
> with the doubletalk (although getting it to work with that would  
> possibly be the best thing in the long term). To try it out we can  
> use freetts for software speech output, as I said hopefully you can  
> get the doubletalk working later if you don't like the freetts voice  
> (I am not a great fan of freetts's voices).
>
> OK, so to get freetts working you will need java installed (I don't  
> know whether the mac comes with java preinstalled), but if it  
> doesn't I wouldn't imagine it would be the hardest thing to get and  
> install. Now download freetts from http://freetts.sf.net. You only  
> need the binary version (I used freetts-1.2.2-bin.zip). Unzip the  
> zipfile somewhere, and change to the directory in which it was  
> unpacked. Now start it as an emacspeak server with a command like:
> java -jar bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar
> and hopefully you will get output saying about it starting and which  
> voice it is using and that it is listening on port 2222.  
> Unfortunately that above command doesn't return you to a shell  
> prompt so either you will need to start another or add the & after  
> the command, like so:
> java -jar bin/FreeTTSEmacspeakServer.jar &
> Now we can start yasr. The following command I will give means you  
> need not set up the configuration file, although in the longer term  
> you will probably want to so as to avoid the extra typing.
> yasr -s "emacspeak server" -p 127.0.0.1:2222
>
> Hopefully now you will have yasr talking.
>
> A couple of notes about the above:
> * You must remember to start freetts as an emacspeak server before  
> trying to use yasr.
> * By providing the -s and -p options to yasr it doesn't matter what  
> the setting for synthesiser and synthesiser port are in yasr.conf as  
> the options take priority.
> * You may want to put some of the above into a shell script so you  
> always have a way to start yasr with freetts, but only ever need the  
> one command (I did find an example of one on the web, I think it was  
> written for solaris, but it might be a good starting point for you  
> to adapt it for the paths and such like which are specific to mac).
>
> Let us know if you get the above working, if so it hopefully will  
> only be a small matter to get the doubletalk working.
>
> Michael Whapples
>
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