Re: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: David Tseng <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 11:51:42 -0700

What exactly are you doing??

On 5/13/11, Florian Beijers <florianbeijers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Which is exactly what I am doing
>
> On May 13, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
>
>> No I have not turned mine on I never liked them but you need to remember
>> this tts server on the mac is new and David is working on versions to come
>> so you can jump in and learn with us or wait till it is 98% stable. As far
>> as I know though they work fine for David.
>>
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florian
>> Beijers
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:31 PM
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac
>>
>> Ok ...do you know how to fix the auditory icons problem too?
>>
>>
>> On May 13, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
>>
>>> You first need to read the manual and then maybe do control-h k for all
>> the
>>> keys.  But to do rate do
>>>
>>> Control-e d 8 for speed eight.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florian
>> Beijers
>>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:44 AM
>>> 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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