Re: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: Florian Beijers <florianbeijers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 18:45:38 +0200

That actually makes eSpeak work on the mac? Neat :D 
Wasn't meant for me but still I might try that out. I'll check release notes 
for the new emacspeak too 
On May 13, 2011, at 6:38 PM, DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26 wrote:

> 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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