RE: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 12:38:20 -0400

See what happens when you type locate espeak >espeak.log in a terminal window.  
There should be some directory structure like emacspeak-33/servers/espeak in 
that log file.  If so see if you can find an espeak file with no file suffix on 
it in that directory.  If not, then run make in that directory and see what 
happens.  If you get errors, then you may need to edit the version of tcl and 
tclx in that make file to match what's on your machine.  I had 8.5 on slackware 
13.0 but that file says 8.4.  So I changed 8.4 to 8.5 and did the make and it 
was successful.  I expect I'll be doing a make on a mac or two this weekend so 
I'll know more after that.  By the way, emacspeak-34.0 Bubbles was just 
released earlier today.

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florian Beijers
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:44
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac

How do I find out what directory it is talking about? I have seen no indication 
of it telling me.
Also , how do I increase the speech rate? I tried changing the value in the 
'default mac speech rate'  field of customize without any visible effect. I 
know the -q flag prevents me from saving but it didnt change my current buffer 
either after hitting state, set.

Thanks in advance,
Florian
On May 13, 2011, at 5:36 PM, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 wrote:

> When emacspeak says specified program is a directory, you probably need
> to enter that directory and if you find a Makefile in that directory run
> make on it.  I had this happen in the emacspeak servers directory until
> I entered that directory and ran make and had a script built by make
> then emacspeak started working on slackware 13.0 using portaudio 19 and
> espeak.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florian
> Beijers
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:16
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I am gradually learning my way around emacs and emacspeak. I have a few
> questions:
> - What does it mean when the voice raises pitch?
> - I have had it tell me "Specified program for new process is a
> directory" ...Is that me doing something wrong or the program?
> - How far can the voice it uses be sped up ?
> - Do links make the voice speak lower like on linux? Working with the
> emacspeak easy howto which gives me these facts, I am quite a newbie to
> emacs and emacspeak..
> 
> Florian
> On May 12, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
> 
>> Grin well ask around I have miss typed my way through life.  
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florian
> Beijers
>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:33 PM
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac
>> 
>> Hehe,
>> 
>> I am afraid that means YOU had a mistype . I copied that line from the
> email
>> xd
>> 
>> Thanks for clearing that up, I never work with svn so didnt know the
>> direction scheme thats used by default. :D 
>> 
>> Florian
>> On May 12, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You have a miss type. It should be:
>>> 
>>> svn co http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk emacspeak
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florian
>> Beijers
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:26 PM
>>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac
>>> 
>>> It doesnt seem to work for me. When i try to run the svn co command I
> get
>> : 
>>> svn: Unusable URI: it does not refer to this repository
>>> 
>>> The command I enter is:
>>> svn co http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svntrunk emacspeak
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Why does this happen and what can I do to fix?
>>> 
>>> FLorianOn May 9, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Grin I didn't use a mac before it because a better OS 10.5
> definitely
>>>> wasn't.  I can't wait for Lion now.  The sad part is I like all
> three
>> OS's
>>>> now so I have to have a mac so I can run them legally.
>>>> 
>>>> Ken
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
> Tseng
>>>> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:09 PM
>>>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac
>>>> 
>>>> Should work on 10.5 as long as you can get all the dependencies
>>>> installed through Mac Ports (or home brew).
>>>> 
>>>> 10.5 most definitely has the cocoa frameworks btw.
>>>> On 5/9/11, Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for this. Does it work on older, G4 Mac OSX 10.5 also?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 5/6/2011 7:06 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
>>>>>> Emacspeak now works on Mac thanks to David.  I know he has posted
> here
>>>>>> before but I have just recently set it up on 3 machines with a bit
> of
>>>>>> Davids
>>>>>> help so I thought I would post the steps.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> first if you don't have Mac ports go to the following link and
> download
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> one for your platform:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://macports.org/install.php
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> sometimes Mac ports doesn't update your profile so you need to if
> it
>>>>>> doesn't.  You can check if it does just by typing port if it is
> there
>> it
>>>>>> should give you some usage information.  If it doesn't work then
> you
>>> need
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> edit your .bash_profile file and add this line
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That will make mac ports work right.  After that follow these
> steps.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #install emacs
>>>>>> sudo port install emacs
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #install subversion
>>>>>> sudo port install subversion
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #get emacspeak repo from the  emacspeak trunk
>>>>>> svn co http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svntrunk emacspeak
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #change directories
>>>>>> cd emacspeak
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #make the configure file
>>>>>> make config
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #build emacspeak
>>>>>> make emacspeak
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #install emacspeak
>>>>>> sudo make install
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #add this line to your bash_profile
>>>>>> export DTK_PROGRAM=mac
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Now close your terminal and relog in your all done run emacspeak.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thanks goes to David and everyone else in getting this to work.  I
> know
>>>>>> more
>>>>>> changes are coming but this works great.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ken
>>>>>> 
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