Re: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: Florian Beijers <florianbeijers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:57:28 +0200

GRin,

Learning it with you rather than waiting for it to be 98 % stable :P 
On May 13, 2011, at 8:51 PM, David Tseng wrote:

> 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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