Re: New to Emacspeak and Emacs

[Erik Heil <eheil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Zack.
Thanks for the fast reply here.  Well, it turns out that we have the
espeak server script depending explicitily on tclsh8.4, according to the
script directive.
#!/usr/bin/tclsh8.4
If I check my path, tclsh8.4 is indeed installed here.

--Erik

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Zachary Kline wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:13:04 -0700
> From: Zachary Kline <klinez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Erik Heil <eheil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: New to Emacspeak and Emacs
>
> Hi Eric,
>    Could you check the top line of the espeak server script?  Does it say
> #!/usr/bin/tcl, or #!/usr/bin/tclsh?
>    You might want to look into the dependencies too.
> Hope this helps,
> Zack.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Heil" <eheil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Lukas Loehrer" <listaddr1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:05 AM
> Subject: Re: New to Emacspeak and Emacs
>
>
> >
> > Hi.
> > I just installed the tcl8.3 package and re-ran the espeak speech server.
> > However, we still get the same error.  I should note that their is both
> > tcl8.3 and 8.4 installed on this machine--perhaps some package explicitly
> > depends on 8.4 though.
> >
> > --Erik
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Lukas Loehrer wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:54:07 +0200
> > > From: Lukas Loehrer <listaddr1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: Erik Heil <eheil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: New to Emacspeak and Emacs
> > > Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Resent-From: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > > You can either install tcl 8.3 or change every occurance of "file0" with
> > > "stdin" in the espeak tcl script.
> > >
> > > Best regards, Lukas
> > >
> > > Erik Heil writes ("Re: New to Emacspeak and Emacs "):
> > > > Hi their.
> > > > Thanks for the information.  Well, it turns out that we do have a very
> > > > interesting error message.  I'll include it below.
> > > > erik@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers$
> > > > erik@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers$ ./espeak
> > > > can not find channel named "file0"
> > > >     while executing
> > > > "fconfigure file0 -encoding utf-8"
> > > >     (file "./espeak" line 508)
> > > > e
> > > > That's very interesting, indeed.  Seems to me to be related to >
> > > UTF8--which
> > > > you probably know, is the default encoding for all character sets in
> > > > Debian.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --Erik
> > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Lukas Loehrer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:04:06 +0200
> > > > > From: Lukas Loehrer <listaddr1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > To: Erik Heil <eheil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Subject: Re: New to Emacspeak and Emacs
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Try running the espeak speech server from the console and see if you
> > > > > get any interesting error message. The server is located in
> > > > >
> > > > > $EMACSPEAK_DIR/servers/espeak
> > > > >
> > > > > Not sure where emacspeak is installed by the binary package but you >
> > > > can find out with
> > > > >
> > > > > dpkg -L emacspeak
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards, Lukas
> > > > >
> > > > > Erik Heil writes ("New to Emacspeak and Emacs "):
> > > > > > Also, on this particular box, I ran emacpseakconfig as root and > >
> > > > selected
> > > > > > Espeak as the Emacs speech server, however, it doesn't work at all.
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > I can,
> > > > > > however, verify that Espeak functions perfectly.  e.hg. if I pipe >
> > > > > some
> > > > > > text to the espeak binary, we do get speech.  Any help would be > >
> > > > greatly
> > > > > > appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > eheil@xxxxxxxxxxx
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