Getting Started
by Richard Wells
Hello: My name is Richard wells. I have been hearing about this
environment for many years but have never investigated it for myself.
For someone like me who has no idea at all where to go to get started,
how would you suggest I begin learning? My experience with computers has
been diverse with some Linux, but mostly Microsoft Windows and Apple
Macintosh. Please be gentle with a user with absolutely no idea of what
emacspeak is and how to get productive using it.
3 months, 1 week
Emacspeak on Android
by Tim Makarios
Hi,
I've been trying to get Emacspeak working on my mobile phone, which is
running LineageOS 17.1 (based on Android 10). So far, I've tried a couple
of things, but neither has quite worked.
First, I tried installing Emacspeak on debian-buster from proot-distro in
Termux. Unfortunately, it's silent, and running espeak on its own results
in a long list of errors, starting with
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:767:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
so I guess Termux's proot-distro isn't giving Debian access to the audio.
For another attempt, I tried building Emacspeak directly in Termux. This
required building TclX, too, which seemed to work, but when I tried running
`./servers/espeak` it gave these errors
> couldn't load file
> "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so": dlopen
> failed: cannot locate symbol "rresvport" referenced by
> "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so"...
> while executing
> "load /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/tclx8.4/libtclx8.4.so Tclx"
> ("package ifneeded Tclx 8.4" script)
> invoked from within
> "package require Tclx"
> (file "./servers/espeak" line 37)
so I guess TclX relies on rresvport, whatever that is, and Termux doesn't
provide it.
Does anyone have any clues about how I might be able to get Emacspeak
running on my phone?
Thanks,
Tim
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12 months
Emacspeak on an arm based mac
by Greg Wocher
Hello all,
Recently I moved to one of the new 14 inch macbook pros with the M1 chip. Does anyone know if it is possible to get emacspeak working on it? Emacs macport installed just fine but I cannot seem to get emacspeak to work.
Thanks,
Greg Wocher
1 year, 3 months
Nyxt browser
by Tim Cross
Hi Raman,
just wondering if you have looked at the Nyxt browser? I've just built
and installed it and am surprised at how good it seems. If your not
familiar with it, it is a Common Lisp based web browser which includes
Javascript support.
What is interesting is that it is not too hard to define commands which
can be run in Emacs which interact with the browser. You can also run a
swank server in the browser and connect to it via slime.
My thinking is that it could provide a nice extension for those sites
which require Javascript and are not terribly useful with eww. I also
suspect it would be fairly straight-forward to add at least rudimentary
speech support. There is already code out there showing use of Emacs and
Nyxt for capturing org notes and driving Nyxt from within Emacs.
Could be another useful tool - especially for those like us who run
Emacs and Stumpwm and therefore already have CL, swank and slime setup
etc.
Tim
1 year, 4 months
Re: What speech servers is everyone using
by D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
I am using Oralux Vocalizer in Debian and SLINT (Slackware
International and for the visually impaired).
I had both working in console and MATE Graphical User Interface, but
currently only the graphical user interface works for emacspeak.
I must have changed my configuration.
My current .emacs file has:
(setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" "outloud")
I know that works for IBM TTS Voxin but I don't know what to call the
Vocalizer language, which is probably why emacspeak fails to load the
speech server.
To see if I could get the Zoe Vocalizer voice in console emacs, I
removed the IBM TTS on my system.
I still have Zoe ML High in my console though but not "inside" with
emacspeak - only the screen reader has Zoe ML High vocalizer, I don't
know how to configure emacs to tell emacs to use the vocalizer
speech server, if there indeed is one. At any rate, it will and does
work with IBM TTS when I install IBM TTS on my system.
Here are the current prices for Voxin.
Voxin + IBM TTS 4.19 EUR0
Voxin + Vocalizer Embedded, Compact 22.10 EUR
Voxin + Vocalizer Embedded, Pro 26 EUR
Voxin + Vocalizer Embedded, High 29.91 EUR
I bought the Voxin IBM TTS 20 years ago, so you can see that it was
quite a bargain.
I found that getting IBM TTS working in console emacs is much easier
than getting Vocalizer Embedded working in console emacs.
I sent a similar message moments ago but with a recording of the ZOE
Vocalizer but the mailman program rejected it, but I sent it directly
to Isaac, so here's the message without the attachment.
Best wishes,
David
1 year, 4 months
What speech servers is everyone using
by Isaac Leonard
I've recently just started to set up emacspeak on a raspberry pi and
currently have it working well with espeak.
I'm not a fan of how low quality and robotic espeak sounds and I can't
find a way to easily change voices with it.
I've investigated the options for outloud but they all seem to be dead,
lack documentation or require payment.
I normally use emacspeak on my mac with the mac speech server but its
only availible on macos so not usible on the pi.
What other options are people using or if you're using one of the above
mentioned ones how did you make it work?
--
Best regards Isaac
1 year, 4 months
Outloud and vowel accent reading
by Francisco Javier Dorado Martínez
Hi all,
Since Emacspeak 54.0 I am having issue reading spanish texts
with Outloud synth.
Reading by word or by line, even with reading buffer with c-u m-e b
Emacspeak doesn't send á, é, í, ó ú characters to Outloud.
Any clue what is happening, Where Can I change this behaviour?
Many thanks
regards and take care
Javier
1 year, 4 months
Bug: Duplicate capital announcements by espeak in programming modes
by Krzysztof Drewniak
Steps to reproduce:
1. Using the espeak server, without any changes to the capitals-related
settings, open a file that uses a programming language mode (such as c++
sources)
2. Navigate to a line containing capital letters.
Expected behavior:
The capital letters are announced either with a lower-pitched "cap" or
"ac" or using espeak's native "Capital" announcement.
Actual behavior:
Both the "cap"/"ac" announcements and the "Capital" announcements are made.
(Part of this email is a note to me in case I end up being the person
fixing this, but I thought I'd send it in just in case.)
- Krzysztof
1 year, 4 months
Re: [tvraman/emacspeak] support for pipewire? (#53)
by T.V Raman
Jens Petersen <notifications(a)github.com> writes:
thanks -- let folks know via the emacspeak list as to what you
discover.
If pipewire-alsa does fix it, we might need to file a bug upstream
against distros like Debian and Fedora that presently dont include
pipewire-alsa
> Thank you - going to test this later.
> Fedora seems to install pipewire-alsa by default AFAICT
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Thanks,
--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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1 year, 4 months
