Elekt Labs Foxtrot Sound Procesor (ELFoxSound)

Basic characteristics

ELFoxSound is an application that reads data from a Tecomat Foxtrot PLC and then plays it through a standard sound card using the Epos speech synthesizer.

Properties

• Supports PLC Tecomat Foxtrot
• The speech synthesizer Epos (language support: Czech, Slovak)

Installation

1. First download and install the speech synthesizer Epos.
2. Download and unzip the ELFoxSound program.
3. Application settings are in the ini file.

Tips and tricks

Mosaic - project configuration.

• Use Bluetooth repro to distribute sound inside the building
• Use a long range Bluetooth dongle
• To simplify distribution of PLC of PUB file, add it into PLC web root. The application will automatically download it:

1. In Mosaic, open "Project Manager/Sw/Export Files/Sending Files To PLC"
2. Set "Auto send newer files to PLC" and "Send assembler file (.pub)" to true
3. Set "Shorter file name" to: "www\var"
4. NOTE: It doesn't work if you have PLC name shorter then 9 characters.

PLC program example

// Text to Speech
TTTS:STRUCT
Voice:byte; // Voice number. 0-Default
Msg:string; // Text to say (win1250 encoding)
END_STRUCT;

if System_S.PERIOD_PULSE_10SEC then
TTS.Msg:='Vážení, někdo k Vám jde na návštěvu. Běžte mu laskavě otevřít. Děkuji.';
else
TTS.Msg:='';
end_if;

Download

http://epos.ufe.cz/download/bin/win32/