Re: SVN Version is broken!

[Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, Like I said in my other message, the permissions appear to be
correct but I just tried your suggested test anyway and got a most
interesting result plus no speech.  I will attach the script below.

Script started on Mon 02 Jul 2007 05:00:14 AM MST
root@xxxxxxxxxxx:~# /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/espeak
invalid command name "signal"

    while executing

"signal ignore {sigint}"

    (file "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/espeak" line 505)

root@xxxxxxxxxxx:~# exit
exit

Script done on Mon 02 Jul 2007 05:01:39 AM MST

I don't tcl so didn't begin to debug that yet.  Just tried this same
command on my desktop machine and it worked as expected.  It spoke and
left me in a tcl prompt.  So there's something strange going on for
sure.

While I looked back over at my laptop, I found the difference that
caused all my problems!!! It seems that the espeak module in my
/usr/share/emacs... directory had a '/!#/usr/bin/tclsh' where the one
in my svn/emacspeak/servers directory had a '/!#/usr/bin/tcl'.  Oh,
the espeak command worked properly in the personal directory with the
/usr/bin/tcl reference.  So I just went into the one in the system
directory and changed to tcl and now it works.  Now I'm not sure where
exactly that tclsh reference came from; perhaps it was an earlier
version or something.  Anyway, finally past that herdle.

Now I can get into more interesting efforts with emacspeak.  I have
another question.  where are synth pitch changes controled from for a
given synth? Or better yet, where are pronunciations controled from?
What I'm getting at is some of the punctuation marks while using
espeak aren't quite right.  In particular, parentheses and brackets
and angle brackets have some funny extra text spoken when they are
read one at a time.  I'm thinking some bad pitch controls are being
used or something.  i would be glad to fix them once I realize where
to go.

Thanks to both Lokas and TV Raman for the timely help here.

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:22:28AM +0200, Lukas Loehrer wrote:
> When testing espeak from the console, do not invoke it with tcl
> explicitly because emacspeak will not either. Try something like
> 
> ./espeak
> 
> in the servers directory. If you get a "Permission denied", try
> 
> chmod 755 espeak
> 
> Best regards, Lukas
> 
> 
> Steve Holmes writes ("Re: SVN Version is broken!"):
> > Thanks for the quick fixes.  For some reason however, my laptop which
> > is using the svn version still won't work with espeak.  dtksoft works
> > on it though.  espeak works properly when I run it from tcl at the
> > shell but emacs / emacspeak just keeps saying "process speaker not
> > running" with no further explanation available.  I'm really not sure
> > where else to look here.
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 07:25:20PM -0700, T. V. Raman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Should be fixed now.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >     Steve> I thought I would give the latest svn poll from
> > >     Steve> yesterday Sat Jun 30 a try and I'm getting "process
> > >     Steve> speaker not running" when I try to use espeak.  It so
> > >     Steve> happens that when I try to select espeak, I get the
> > >     Steve> following: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> > >     Steve> emacspeak-ssh-tts-server What has ssh-tts-server got
> > >     Steve> to do with espeak? the plain 26.0 version worked ok as
> > >     Steve> long as I grab the svn directory of linux-espeak and
> > >     Steve> hack the Makefile a bit.  Once the process speak not
> > >     Steve> running occurs, I'm stuck in emacs and can't do
> > >     Steve> anything in it.  Even with Speakup running, I can't
> > >     Steve> even exit the program; I end up killing emacs from
> > >     Steve> another console.  I got dectalk to run ok but today it
> > >     Steve> crashed and then I got the dreaded "process speaker
> > >     Steve> not running" error again.  At least yesterday with the
> > >     Steve> prod version of emacspeak, dtk-soft would poop out but
> > >     Steve> I could always restart again with c-e c-s.  I found
> > >     Steve> espeak to be extremely responsive and generally worked
> > >     Steve> well with prod version of espeak.
> > >     Steve> 
> > >     Steve> Any ideas? Not sure where to go to fix the voide
> > >     Steve> symbol.
> > >     Steve> 
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