Bill Dengler via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org&gt; writes: I rarely use windows for much, so my knowledge in this area is very limited. However, with the minimal experimentation I've done with WSL I have found there are some 'unusual' results, especially with regards to access to hardware devices. In particular, I've experienced network packet fragmentation problems (requiring smaller MTU settings) and contention over access to hardware (e.g. sound card), which is likely very hardware specific. The first thing I would try is to turn off any additional sound related functionality - no auditory icons and no playing of the startup mp3 and no native windows sound events. Basically, ensure only the emacspeak TTS server is attempting to access the sound hardware. This won't 'fix' the problem, but might make it easier to identify where issues are. If you can get Emacspeak to do basic speech only, you can then investigate adding back auditory icons etc. I have also observed some latency when running WSL. However, for me, I'm running windows inside a virtual machine, so when using WSL I'm running a virtual machine inside a virtual machine, which makes latency issue unsurprising.

Do you have wslg (VAIL) on your machine? Bill From: Mathieu Barbe <mathieu(a)barbe.io&gt; Sent: Monday, 27 September 2021 02:36 To: Bill Dengler <codeofdusk(a)gmail.com&gt;; emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Emacspeak fails to start under WSL2 Hi, how you can access at your sound card from wsl2? In my side, no sound card is present and espeakng can not produce any sound. ++ Math On 9/25/2021 12:27 AM, Bill Dengler via Emacspeak wrote: Hello, Trying to run Emacs 27.1 with Emacspeak commit 3b35ec3 under Debian 11 Bullseye on Windows 11 through WSL2. Both the Espeak and Outloud speech servers produce speech when running via the shell, but when I try and start Emacs the start-up icon plays for about a second and then Emacs hangs. My minimal init.el is as follows: (setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" "outloud") (load-file "/home/codeofdusk/.emacs.d/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el") Any suggestions to help get this going? Thanks in advance, Bill _______________________________________________ Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org <mailto:emacspeak@emacspeak.org> To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org <mailto:emacspeak-leave@emacspeak.org>