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
Mathimatics mode / specific configurations for different environments
by Isaac Leonard
Does anyone have specific configurations for reading latex / mathimatics
in emacspeak?
Currently I've redifined some pronounciations such as changing "_" to be
said as "sub" or "^" to be said as "to the power of" which is useful
however these are relatively minor changes.
Does anyone know if theres a way to slow the speaking rate down when
reading math between dollar signs or even better if there is some
specific mode for reading mathimatics like mathML in browsers?
If this mode does not exist would anyone be willing to work with me to
create it?
Currently I don't really know where to start to be honest but such a
mode would be extremely helpful.
--
Best regards Isaac
1 year, 2 months
has behaviour of emacspeak-wizards-shell-toggle changed?
by prayner＠unimelb.edu.au
I use this a bit to switch my shell buffer to the directory of the
file from the current buffer, e.g. editing file and want to do a git
commit.
At some point it seems to have stopped changing the current working
directory for the shell itself. I've looked a little and it seems the
shell-cd function used by emacspeak-wizards-shell-toggle doesn't
change the shell's working directory.
Looking at the relevant commits:
git diff 9eaa5db1cbdb fab2a5cc74452d2 emacspeak-wizards.el
diff --git a/lisp/emacspeak-wizards.el b/lisp/emacspeak-wizards.el
index 4a2a85621..572349bba 100644
--- a/lisp/emacspeak-wizards.el
+++ b/lisp/emacspeak-wizards.el
@@ -735,10 +735,7 @@ If optional arg property is not supplied, read it interactively. "
(shell)
(unless (string-equal (expand-file-name dir)
(expand-file-name default-directory))
- (goto-char (point-max))
- (insert (format "pushd %s" dir))
- (comint-send-input)
- (shell-process-cd dir))
+ (shell-cd dir))
(emacspeak-auditory-icon 'select-object)
(emacspeak-speak-mode-line)))
It looks like explicit interaction with the shell process was removed.
Was that the intent? fwiw I prefer the old behaviour.
cheers
Peter
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1 year, 3 months
Fwd: Query about speech output when command uses `read-event`/`read-char*`
by Narendra Joshi
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 4:37 PM
Subject: Query about speech output when command uses
`read-event`/`read-char*`
To: <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org>
Hi folks,
I am new to Emacspeak in general and I am still getting myself familiar
with what is available. One of the problems that I have been facing
during my Emacs usage is with buffers that are displayed when Emacs is
asking me to enter some very specific characters (y, n, SPC). For
example, using a disabled command invokes
`disabled-command-function'. This command wouldn't let me try to
navigate to the buffer displaying the message about the disabled
command because this command expects some very specific keys to be
pressed. Another example is the `org-agenda` command which refuses to
accept anything other than the displayed options. I would like to jump
to the buffer that displays the text and go through the contents of the
buffer one line at a time.
Is there already something in Emacspeak that would help me?
Best regards,
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Narendra Joshi
1 year, 3 months
company not working on emacspeak windows
by Edhoari Setiyoso
Hi all,
I'm trying to make emacspeak works on windows using this project as
baseline
https://github.com/SaqibS/emacspeak-on-windows
So far I get my server works with emacspeak 43. But it does not work on
magit buffer. So I figure to use emacspeak 53. On v53, magit buffer can
be read but company mode is not working.
I get the message
Company mode enabled in current buffer
Company: An error occurred in auto-begin
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Company: An error occurred in auto-begin
Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
When I exclude emacspeak from init, company works as usual.
I've tried v54, v55 and still stuck. I hope someone can give me some
advice on troubleshooting this problem.
Thanks
--
Edhoari Setiyoso
1 year, 3 months
Enable table-mode as a minor mode in org-mode
by Isaac Leonard
I recently discovered emacspeak-table-mode and its amazing.
Would it be possible to use it to read tables in org-mode?
Thats the only place I really use tables in emacs other then with CSVs.
--
Best regards Isaac
1 year, 3 months
auditory icon themes not working on m1 mac
by Jimmy B
Hi all,
First time posting on the mailing list. Please let me know if I'm
doing something wrong :)
I recently installed emacs/emacspeak on my m1 macbook air using
the method outlined below:
brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus
brew install emacs-plus@28 --with-no-titlebar
then unpacked the latest emacspeak tar.bz2 from the website and
ran
make config
make
Then added to init.el
(load-file "~/.emacs.d/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
(load-file "~/.emacs.d/emacspeak/lisp/mac-voices.el")
(dtk-set-rate 500 t)
(setq emacspeak-play-program "/opt/homebrew/bin/play") ;;was nill
without this being set manually
This setup allows me to use the function
emacspeak-play-auditory-icon to hear the icons. but whenever I do
emacspeak-sounds-select-theme and enter pan-chimes theme's folder
this doesn't make the theme work as expected. No errors just
nothing.
can anybody let me know what I'm doing wrong. I suspect that I'm
loading the themes in wrong somehow or I haven't got something
set that I need to. But I can't figure it out.
Best
Jimmy
1 year, 3 months
Feature Request
by D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
Feature Request
A software synthesizer server for the newest Voxin Embedded Voices.
Here is a sample of my voice which is Zoe American Englsih ML High:
http://qsl.net/n1ea/emacspeak.wav
I had to spell emacspeak as emac speak to get it to sound right.
Voxin Embedded is available in many languages and dialects,
Languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German,
Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indian Bengali, Indian Bhojpuri,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Marathi,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish,
Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian,
Example of dialects for English language include: American,
Australian, British, Indian, Irish, South African English dialects.
,
Regards,
David
1 year, 3 months
Looking for accessible material for DSA and Discrete Mathematics
by Soundarya Pradhan
Hello,
This is not a technical question, but I did not find a better group for
this.
I want to take my data structure and algorithm to the next level, so I am
looking for some accessible material on DSA and Discrete mathematics.
It is preferable if it works with emacs.
If the process to access it requires something more technical than C-x C-f
or installing a melpa package then please guide me or suggest resources for
the same.
Regards,
Soundarya
1 year, 3 months
