Hi All: Anyone have any problems with the voice announcements with the Predict program? If I understand correctly, if you use an uppercase "T" command, you will get voice announcements periodically. Doesn't seem to want to work here, am I missing something? No big deal, just curious!
Scott/WB2UZR
Hi All: Anyone have any problems with the voice announcements with the Predict program? If I understand correctly, if you use an uppercase "T" command, you will get voice announcements periodically. Doesn't seem to want to work here, am I missing something? No big deal, just curious!
What platform? Did you build it yourself or get a binary somewhere?
PREDICT does the voice announcements through a separate program called "vocalizer". Do you have that program? It should be in the vocalizer subdirectory of the Predict directory. You can run it standalone to see if it works by itself:
./vocalizer 123 45
Vocalizer works on Linux by writing to /dev/dsp. Do you have such a device? If you cat a .WAV file to it, can you hear anything?
73 -Paul kb5mu@amsat.org
Ha! I didn't know that it would do that. It seems to work for me (version 2.2.1), on my OpenSuSE 10.2 system.
If you hit "i", for program information, what does it say about the Vocalizer? It should show "soundcard detected"
Poking around the source tree, the vocalizer seems to be a separately compiled program. Did you start from source?
Finally, have you fiddled with the system's mixer settings? That's usually what trips things up on Linux.
Good luck, and thanks for the tip!
Greg KO6TH
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:00:20 -0500 From: wb2uzr@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Predict Voice Announcements?
Hi All: Anyone have any problems with the voice announcements with the Predict program? If I understand correctly, if you use an uppercase "T" command, you will get voice announcements periodically. Doesn't seem to want to work here, am I missing something? No big deal, just curious!
Scott/WB2UZR
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