Re: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: Florian Beijers <florianbeijers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 21:22:20 +0200

AH ok.

I thought it was meant to do it by default and so i was doing something wrong. 
I like the mac engine just fine xd

Thanks for the help

On May 13, 2011, at 9:16 PM, David Tseng wrote:

> If you can compile espeak on Mac and get it to speak via command line,
> then yes you can use it with emacspeak.
> 
> You have to keep in mind that everything there (in emacspeak) is meant
> for linux so much of the work is to resolve and build dependencies not
> included with Mac.
> 
> That file without an extension is a tcl script btw.
> 
> On 5/13/11, Florian Beijers <florianbeijers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This message makes me think I can use eSpeak on the mac with emacspeak . Is
>> this true?
>> If so, I checked and there is indeed an eSpeak file in that directory
>> without a file extension, but running:
>> emacspeak -e
>> 
>> gives the ' process speaker not running '  error which I have seen before on
>> linux when it was trying to pipe speech to a nonexistent hardware
>> synthesizer. So I know its there ...appears emacspeak does not ;)
>> 
>> 
>> 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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