Hello! Currently brass supports the following synthesizers: infovox (hardware, German and English) hadifix/mbrola (software, German) freephone/mbrola (software, English) You can configure combinations, e.g. hadifix/mbrola for German and infovox for English. Dolphin (hardware) will be supported soon. I don't know outloud, is this a hardware synthesizer? Every hardware synthesizer connected to the serial port should be easy to support. The tricky part is indexing, but currently brass doesn't need it. Roger On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, marco skambraks wrote:

hi, On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Roger Butenuth wrote:

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Hello!

I have just uploaded the first developer version of brass, a braille and speech server for Linux. You can find it on: is your server able to support outloud and mbrola?

hi, On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Nath wrote:

No. I think Outloud is software and I think this is the speech server from IBM. Maybe someone will give us more precision. you are right outloud is "viavoice-outloud" from ibm it is a softspeech and there is a very nice interface for development, but I tried to create a outloud-server unfortunately is the outloud-engine not very stable so I canceled my project

roger, maybe that you are able to make a stable server/interface for ibm outloud regards marco

Nath ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Butenuth <butenuth@online.de> To: <suse-blinux@suse.com> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

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Hello!

Currently brass supports the following synthesizers:

infovox (hardware, German and English) hadifix/mbrola (software, German) freephone/mbrola (software, English)

You can configure combinations, e.g. hadifix/mbrola for German and infovox for English.

Dolphin (hardware) will be supported soon. I don't know outloud, is this a hardware synthesizer? Every hardware synthesizer connected to the serial port should be easy to support. The tricky part is indexing, but currently brass doesn't need it.

Roger

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, marco skambraks wrote:

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hi, On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Roger Butenuth wrote:

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Hello!

I have just uploaded the first developer version of brass, a braille and speech server for Linux. You can find it on: is your server able to support outloud and mbrola?

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hi, On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Roger Butenuth wrote:

Hello!

I have downloaded viavoice (sdk and runtime), I will try it. Seems not too difficult.

Have you contacted IBM regarding the instabilities you found? If it I had email contact to some viavoice outloud people but they are not developers

crashes, I can try the same approach as with hadifix/freephone/mbrola: Build a wrapper and restart them when ther crash. that's right, but for outloud you can use a better interface there is a lib you can use and the docu is very well I guess that outloud is not able to process a high throughput you can try both methods and then we will see wich one is stable

I'm very impressed of your speech_server I modified something and now your speechserver is able to work with suse-blinux you should insert a usleep(1); into your mainloop that minimize the cpu-load regards marco

Roger

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, marco skambraks wrote:

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hi, On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Nath wrote:

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No. I think Outloud is software and I think this is the speech server from IBM. Maybe someone will give us more precision. you are right outloud is "viavoice-outloud" from ibm it is a softspeech and there is a very nice interface for development, but I tried to create a outloud-server unfortunately is the outloud-engine not very stable so I canceled my project

roger, maybe that you are able to make a stable server/interface for ibm outloud

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Hello Marco! Antwort auf eine Mail von marco skambraks:

I'm very impressed of your speech_server I modified something and now your speechserver is able to work with suse-blinux

Is there a chance to test this with Outloud and the Driver for SuSE 7.0? CIAO Stefan -- Stefan Jansen *** E-Mail: jansen@szs.ira.uka.de unkd@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Die beruehmten letzten Worte... ...eines Farbenblinden: "Mensch ist das 'ne lange Gruenphase..."

Hello! On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, marco skambraks wrote:

that's right, but for outloud you can use a better interface there is a lib you can use and the docu is very well I guess that outloud is not able to process a high throughput you can try both methods and then we will see wich one is stable

I have browsed through the docu, looks easy to use.

I'm very impressed of your speech_server I modified something and now your speechserver is able to work with suse-blinux

you should insert a usleep(1); into your mainloop that minimize the cpu-load

At wich place? The mainloop has a timeout in the select() call, 1 second or 50 ms, depending on the state. I don't see how the usleep(1) should help. I just checked: As long there is no activity, neither brass nor softspeech_server create any load visible in top. Roger

Hello! On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, marco skambraks wrote:

I think we talking about different programs I used speech (speech.c) and this one made a very high cpu-load

speech.c is the old version, softspeech_server.c is the new, completely redesigned version. You should throw away speech.c. Roger