Yasr and DoubleTalk LT

Yasr and DoubleTalk LT

[Gilles Casse]

Hi,

At the moment, my  DoubleTalk LT doesn't speak using the regular command line:

yasr -s doubletalk -p /dev/ttyS0

or in the configuration file:

synthesizer=doubletalk
synthesizer port=S0

Yasr comes from the unstable debian package (0.6.5-1).

Thanks for your help,

Gilles


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Re: Yasr and DoubleTalk LT

[Jude DaShiell]

Did you build yasr from source tarball?  When I had yasr working I found
it necessary to do that first.  Also, recognize when yasr runs it will run
itself in another shell environment on top of whatever current environment
you have running.  If your system is configured to prevent such things
from happening, some security reasons exist for doing this then yasr won't
run.  Did you ever have your doubletalk lt talking using Linux?  If so,
have you had it talking as a user other than root?  If not, you may have a
port permissions problem.  Yasr worked on other flavors of Unix before
anyone got it working on Linux so it doesn't have any Linux dependencies
in the package.  This is why it may be necessary for you to do the entire
build process on it yourself.

Re: Yasr and DoubleTalk LT

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi Gilles.
I don't think it's  a security problem. Make sure, if you are using
/etc/yasr/yasr.conf, that the doubletalk line and the serial port line
are the only ones you have
uncommented. it may be that the yasr.conf came with certain lines
already uncommented by default. Also, I'm assuming that your doubletalk
actually is at
/dev/ttyS0. Finally, I've found that sometimes when I've made a change or
reinstalled either the source package from the yasr homepage or the debian
yasr, sometimes i have to log out and back in again for it to work.
I'm just making guesses; hope this helps. right now I'm using it primarily
with eflite but i have had it working with the external doubletalk.

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Re: Yasr and DoubleTalk LT

[Gilles Casse]

Hello,

Thanks for your answers.

After a few tries, my Doubletalk accepts to speak if a Yasr file is modified (1) or if the relevant Emacspeak speech server is used (2).

If using any Emacspeak speech server is acceptable with Yasr, it would be great for me.
But I guess that the serial port can't be selected anymore and must be /dev/ttyS0 because the field "synthesizer port" is already used to select the Emacspeak server.

Gilles

(1) Just a notice: in forcing a newline character '\n' for each sentence, I hear the sentence followed by 'number' (in tts.c, array Synth, line doubletalk, "%s\n" instead of "%s").

(2) The DoubleTalk works using Yasr and the relevant Emacspeak speech server with:

synthesizer=emacspeak server
synthesizer port=|/usr/bin/tcl /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/doubletalk

Whatever the test (1) or (2), a last word is added to the sentence, something like 'number' (probably because of the \n).


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