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eureka · 01-08-2014, 08:09 AM

@peterhey, Has means "Hasharray property". Use lipc-hash-prop for interacting with such property. This program has usage info.

However, I think that text is fed to TTS through /tmp/ttsUSFifo FIFO. But I don't know anything about of process required for passing valid text. I executed echo 'Hello' > /tmp/ttsUSFifo twice. KT didn't say anything after first command, but it said Hello twice after second command.

EDIT: It looks like text written to FIFO is queued and TTS wiill say something when it gets 7 or more characters (excluding spaces). There is also another topic mentioned this FIFO.

TTS also supports control sequences. Control sequences (or, at least, \Mrk sequence) starts with ASCII ESC code. Stock reader passes text chunks in control sequences '\Mrk=<number>\<word>', where <number> is looks like word position in whole text and <word> is a word (with any following punctuation sign). Example of stock reader behavior:

Code:

echo -n $'\033''\Mrk=1\Hello '$'\033''\Mrk=7\TTS '$'\033''\Mrk=11\world. '$'\033''\Mrk=17\Hi.' > /tmp/ttsUSFifo

Note that I don't know semantic of \Mrk sequence and I might be wrong in starting counting from 1 or in determining of any following \Mrk numbers.

01-08-2014, 08:09 AM	#12
eureka but forgot what it's like Posts: 741 Karma: 2345678 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: north (by northwest) Device: Kindle Touch	@peterhey, Has means "Hasharray property". Use lipc-hash-prop for interacting with such property. This program has usage info. However, I think that text is fed to TTS through /tmp/ttsUSFifo FIFO. But I don't know anything about of process required for passing valid text. I executed echo 'Hello' > /tmp/ttsUSFifo twice. KT didn't say anything after first command, but it said Hello twice after second command. EDIT: It looks like text written to FIFO is queued and TTS wiill say something when it gets 7 or more characters (excluding spaces). There is also another topic mentioned this FIFO. TTS also supports control sequences. Control sequences (or, at least, \Mrk sequence) starts with ASCII ESC code. Stock reader passes text chunks in control sequences '\Mrk=<number>\<word>', where <number> is looks like word position in whole text and <word> is a word (with any following punctuation sign). Example of stock reader behavior: Code: echo -n $'\033''\Mrk=1\Hello '$'\033''\Mrk=7\TTS '$'\033''\Mrk=11\world. '$'\033''\Mrk=17\Hi.' > /tmp/ttsUSFifo Note that I don't know semantic of \Mrk sequence and I might be wrong in starting counting from 1 or in determining of any following \Mrk numbers. Last edited by eureka; 01-08-2014 at 09:53 AM.