Unix

[james collins]

It worked! Now if I can just figure out how to exit yasr and freetts?

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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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