[mary-users] Mary and Flex, commit input w/o Socket shutdown

[Marc Schroeder]

Hi Rene,

the http protocol is new to mary 4. It will not at all work with mary 3.6.

MARY 4 is now pure java, because for the many platforms it was too 
painful to maintain native libraries. One of the things that had to go 
was tritonus, which provided the mp3 encoding.

So as for the close future, mp3 support is gone, sorry about that.

Regards,
Marc

René Bühling schrieb:
> Hello Marc,
> 
> thank you very much for your valuable hint which lead me to a working 
> version.
> 
> Indeed it is now working with MARY 4 via a HTTP connection. Would that 
> HTTP communication have worked with Mary 3.6 too? I could reach the 3.6 
> server via http but I did not manage to send the arguments, it always 
> says "Error parsing request: Expected either a line MARY IN=<INPUTTYPE> 
> OUT=<OUTPUTTYPE> [AUDIO=<AUDIOTYPE>] or a line containing only a number 
> identifying a request."
> 
> Anyway, I feel that I would prefer the version 4, but the major problem 
> is currently that Mary 4 seems no longer to be able to produce MP3s. 
> Flash on the other hand is not able to play WAVs. I found workaround 
> ActionScript classes which manage to play the WAV received from Mary at 
> all, but there is something wrong with the playback speed or else. The 
> received audio clip is played extremely slow. Has the MP3 support gone 
> or will it reappear in a future realease of Mary? Or can it even be 
> reactivated via config?
> 
> Thanks,
> René
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Schroeder schrieb:
>> Hello Rene,
>>
>> have you considered using the HTTP server which is the default 
>> configuration with MARY 4.0 beta? I guess that it is easier from Flex 
>> to establish an http connection than to juggle with two socket 
>> connections...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marc
>>
>> René Bühling schrieb:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to use the Mary TTS with an Adobe Air/Flex application 
>>> and I ran into a problem I have no more solution approaches for. 
>>> Maybe anyone here has an idea?
>>>
>>> I wrote a Flex/ActionScript 3 application and connected to Mary 
>>> successfully through the default flash.net.Socket class. I works fine 
>>> to the point where I want to have a sentence verbalized: I send the 
>>> text "Hello World \n" via the data socket, but nothing happens. I 
>>> found out, that Mary starts execution when I close my data socket, 
>>> not earlier. This leads to the situation that the result can not be 
>>> sent back, because the socket is closed of course.
>>>
>>> It seems that the flash.net.Socket does not have any pendant to the 
>>> shutdown method that exists in most other languages' Socket 
>>> implementations. Therefore I can not explicitly stop the writing 
>>> channel. According to Adobe's documentation I guess that flush() is 
>>> meant to do the job, but I think this is not the same as shutdown and 
>>> it also does not work here.
>>>
>>> Is there any possibility to signal Mary that the submitted data is 
>>> complete other than shutdown-ing the write socket?
>>> Or does anybody have experience connecting Mary to Flash?
>>>
>>> Thanks and kind regards,
>>> René
>>>
>>
> 

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