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Roger Butenuth

14 Jan 2001 14 Jan '01

17:48

Hello! I have just uploaded the first developer version of brass, a braille and speech server for Linux. You can find it on: http://www.butenuth.onlinehome.de/blinux/ Some features of brass: · Supports several types of braille terminals connected to the serial port · Multilingual speech support (currently English and German) · Support for several hardware synthesizers · Speech without any hardware synthesizer through a soundcard. · Can be controlled by keys on the braille terminal and with the keyboard (this needs a kernel patch). · Modular code, easy to extend The brass code is based on the brltty code, but many things have changed. This version is not for the "end user", there is not much documentation. But I hope there will be some beta testers. Roger Butenuth

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marco skambraks

15 Jan 15 Jan

08:14

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server for Linux

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?

regards marco

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http://www.butenuth.onlinehome.de/blinux/

Some features of brass: · Supports several types of braille terminals connected to the serial port · Multilingual speech support (currently English and German) · Support for several hardware synthesizers · Speech without any hardware synthesizer through a soundcard. · Can be controlled by keys on the braille terminal and with the keyboard (this needs a kernel patch). · Modular code, easy to extend

The brass code is based on the brltty code, but many things have changed.

This version is not for the "end user", there is not much documentation. But I hope there will be some beta testers.

Roger Butenuth

** Life is hard and then you die ** ----------------------------------- SuSE GmbH - Deutschherrenstrasse 15-19 - 90429 Nuernberg Projekt: suse-blinux http://www.blinux.suse.de E-Mail: Marco Skambraks blinux-support: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480

Roger Butenuth

20:33

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server for Linux

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?

Nath

23:03

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

No. I think Outloud is software and I think this is the speech server from IBM. Maybe someone will give us more precision. Nath ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Butenuth To: 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?

marco skambraks

16 Jan 16 Jan

07:44

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

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 regards marco

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Nath ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Butenuth To: 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?

marco skambraks

09:02

New subject: phonemes US

hi, is freephone only for brittish english? I tried to use a us database with freephone and the output via mbrola is very bad can anyone tell me wich phonem software is build for US? regards marco ** Life is hard and then you die ** ----------------------------------- SuSE GmbH - Deutschherrenstrasse 15-19 - 90429 Nuernberg Projekt: suse-blinux http://www.blinux.suse.de E-Mail: Marco Skambraks blinux-support: Di. und Do. 15.00 - 20.00 Uhr 0421/526-2480

Roger Butenuth

18:28

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

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 crashes, I can try the same approach as with hadifix/freephone/mbrola: Build a wrapper and restart them when ther crash. 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

marco skambraks

18:56

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

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

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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

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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

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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

thomaselben＠t-online.de

17 Jan 17 Jan

05:50

New subject: fenstergröße

hallo und guten morgen ich habe da ein problem bei dem ich nicht recht weiter komme. bei manchen progis kannst du die fenstergröße fest einstellen, aber bei anderen geht das nur sitzungsweise. wer von euch hat da einen tip für mich wie ich das läste neugestalten bei jedem neuauf- ruf mir schenken kann. im voraus danke für eure hilfe bis die tage keine frage

jansen＠szs.ira.uka.de

10:18

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

Hello Marco! Antwort auf eine Mail von marco skambraks:

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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..."

Roger Butenuth

19:24

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

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

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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.

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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

marco skambraks

18 Jan 18 Jan

15:20

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

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Hello Marco!

Antwort auf eine Mail von marco skambraks:

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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?

hi, On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Stefan Jansen wrote: there is no server/driver for outloud the speech-server from roger works with mbrola and now sbl can support mbrola-synth, but it is very beta regards marco

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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..."

marco skambraks

15:25

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

hi, On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Roger Butenuth wrote:

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Hello!

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, marco skambraks wrote:

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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.

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

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Roger

Roger Butenuth

16:26

New subject: [suse-blinux] new tool: brass - BRaille and Speech Server forLinux

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

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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

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