Emacspeak in .emacs VS. emacspeak script

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actraully, I doubt it. The reason I was told to have emacspeak loaded early is
to ensure defadvice definitions work correctly. The problem you are reporting
is a failure to successfully play the startup auditory icon and nothing to do
with defadvice. Personally, I disabled that option some time ago and haven't
thought about it since then. I seem to remember something about the option
being reversed i.e. defaults to off rather than on and you need to explicitly
set it, but I could be wrong. Things to check -

1. Check the value of emacspeak-play-emacspeak-startup-icon. It needs to be 't'
to have the icon played. 

2. Check that the sound file is in the correct location. 

3. Try playing the sound file to make sure it works

As there are no error messages in the messages buffer output you posted, I
doubt the problem is because emacspeak cannot find the audio file or cannot
play it for some reason. My bet is that the value ov
emacspeak-play-emacspeak-startup-icon is nil rather than t.

Tim

Kalyan Mukherjea writes:
 > Hi Tim,
 > I think the samall problem I wish to discuss has some relevance with
 > what you wrote about loading emacspeak before anything else.
 > 
 > I have been using emacspeak for almost 4 years starting from
 > emacspeak-14. Except for this version on a Red Hat linux box, I have
 > never heard the emacspeak startup icon:
 > 
 > "This is emacspeak" spoken with Bach's Tocata & Fugue playing in the
 > background.
 > 
 > I am running a Fedora Core 3 setup and could not find anything under
 > the /etc/ directory with emacs. But obviously the Fedora does some
 > work when I start emacspeak because when I look at the *Messages*
 > buffer (attached below)  on line 24 there is mention of some RedHat specific functions
 > being loaded 
 > But the top of the *Messages* buffer starts with the emacspeak startup
 > file.
 > 
 > Obviously your script is tailored for the debian distro. Does anybody
 > feel like helping out?
 > 
 > The problem is a trivial complaint but  it would be nice to get the
 > startup "jingle" back.
 > Indeed I had forgotten about it and remembered only when a few days
 > ago I ran
 > the Oralux Live CD to help a blind person get started on linux etc.
 > TIA.
 > Cheers.
 > Kalyan
 > 
 > This is the *Messages* buffer immediately after I start emacspeak:
 > 
 > 
 > (emacs -q -l /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el -l /home/kalyan/.emacs)
 > Loading disp-table...done
 > Loading tool-bar...done
 > Loading image...done
 > Loading tooltip...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang-coding-systems-init.el (source)...
 > Loading encoded-kb...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang-coding-systems-init.el (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/php-mode-init.el (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/psgml-init.el (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/python-mode-init.el (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpm-spec-mode-init.el (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/w3m-init.el (source)...done
 > For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
 > Loading cl-macs...done
 > Note: file is write protected
 > Loading emacspeak...
 > Loading cl-extra...done
 > Loading emacspeak-loaddefs (source)...
 > Note: file is write protected
 > Loading emacspeak-loaddefs (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-cus-load.el (source)...done
 > Loading /usr/libexec/emacs/21.3/i386-redhat-linux/fns-21.3.1.el (source)...done
 > Loading bytecomp...done
 > Loading byte-opt...done
 > Loading emacspeak...done
 > Loading voice-setup...done
 > Loading voice-setup...done
 > Loading replace...
 > ad-handle-definition: `occur-mode-goto-occurrence' got redefined
 > ad-handle-definition: `occur-next' got redefined
 > ad-handle-definition: `occur-prev' got redefined
 > Loading replace...done
 > Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/sounds/default-8k/define-theme.el (source)...done
 > Loading /home/kalyan/.emacspeak/.dictionary...done
 > Loading font-lock...
 > Loading regexp-opt...done
 > Loading font-lock...done
 > Loading edmacro...done
 > Loading vm-vars...done
 > Loading cl-seq...done
 > Loading vm-w3m (compiled; note, source file is newer)...done
 > Loading /home/kalyan/emacspeak.el (source)...done
 > Turned on auditory icons 

-- 
Tim Cross
tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx

There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they 
understand and those who do not understand what they manage.

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