This was the problem I fixed last evening, I dont believe you've
done an svn update everywhere.
The bug had slipped in during a failed attempt to move everything
to tcl8.4 and then reverting the change, not all the changes had
gotten reverted correctly.
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Steve> Well, Like I said in my other message, the permissions
Steve> appear to be correct but I just tried your suggested
Steve> test anyway and got a most interesting result plus no
Steve> speech. I will attach the script below.
Steve>
Steve> Script started on Mon 02 Jul 2007 05:00:14 AM MST
Steve> root@xxxxxxxxxxx:~#
Steve> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/espeak
Steve> invalid command name "signal"
Steve>
Steve> while executing
Steve>
Steve> "signal ignore {sigint}"
Steve>
Steve> (file
Steve> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/espeak"
Steve> line 505)
Steve>
Steve> root@xxxxxxxxxxx:~# exit exit
Steve>
Steve> Script done on Mon 02 Jul 2007 05:01:39 AM MST
Steve>
Steve> I don't tcl so didn't begin to debug that yet. Just
Steve> tried this same command on my desktop machine and it
Steve> worked as expected. It spoke and left me in a tcl
Steve> prompt. So there's something strange going on for
Steve> sure.
Steve>
Steve> While I looked back over at my laptop, I found the
Steve> difference that caused all my problems!!! It seems
Steve> that the espeak module in my
Steve> /usr/share/emacs... directory had a
Steve> '/!#/usr/bin/tclsh' where the one in my
Steve> svn/emacspeak/servers directory had a
Steve> '/!#/usr/bin/tcl'. Oh, the espeak command worked
Steve> properly in the personal directory with the
Steve> /usr/bin/tcl reference. So I just went into the one
Steve> in the system directory and changed to tcl and now it
Steve> works. Now I'm not sure where exactly that tclsh
Steve> reference came from; perhaps it was an earlier version
Steve> or something. Anyway, finally past that herdle.
Steve>
Steve> Now I can get into more interesting efforts with
Steve> emacspeak. I have another question. where are synth
Steve> pitch changes controled from for a given synth? Or
Steve> better yet, where are pronunciations controled from?
Steve> What I'm getting at is some of the punctuation marks
Steve> while using espeak aren't quite right. In particular,
Steve> parentheses and brackets and angle brackets have some
Steve> funny extra text spoken when they are read one at a
Steve> time. I'm thinking some bad pitch controls are being
Steve> used or something. i would be glad to fix them once I
Steve> realize where to go.
Steve>
Steve> Thanks to both Lokas and TV Raman for the timely help
Steve> here.
Steve>
Steve> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:22:28AM +0200, Lukas
Steve> 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. > >
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