Re: Auditory icons question

[Bart Bunting <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Raman,

I'm currently using queue but playing the icon as soon as it arrives
rather than queueing it as it's currently giving the best results.

Still tinkering with it though.

We just got tones working nicely.  Last remaining thing I think is caps
and allcaps beep. 


There are one or two niggling issues but nothing serious.

I think in a week or two it will be ready to be included in emacspeak.
Before this is done though I think I should write up some instructions
on how to get emacspeak up and running on a mac as it wasn't an entirely
straight forward thing to do.  Not emacspeak's fault, more to do with
getting all the bits in place first.

One other question.  I notice that in  tts lib there are functions like:
queue_backup, queue_remove, queue_advance, queue_retreat although I
can't find where they are used.

Are they required?

Cheers

Bart
 
 On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:31:42 -0700, "T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bart,
> 
> Note that that option emacspeak-auditory-icon-function can take
> one of three values --- well, more if you write more functions:
> 
> Roughly:
> 
> play -- plays it locally, calls aplay.
> queue: queues it to the server using {a sound_icon_name}
> serve -- sends it to the server as {p sound_icon_name}
> 
> 
> 
> distinction between "queue" and "serve" is subtle -- it's there
> because at some point in the past, "queue" didn't always work as
> expected due to sound card latency.
> 
> If it works, queue is ideal, since the icon comes at the right
> point in the output stream. If not use "serve".
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> --raman
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> --raman
> 
> 
> On 4/11/11, Bart Bunting <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > Actualy it was that I had emacspeak-auditory-icon-function set to
> > emacspeak-play-auditory-icon which works fine for me on linux using
> > alsa.  I couldn't get this working on the mac but have changed it to
> > emacspeak-queue-auditory-icon and had the speech server play it which is
> > now working well.
> >
> > Thanks for the tips though!
> >
> > Also the mac server is now getting quite close to being ready for prime
> > time so if anyone else out there wants to give it a spin it would be
> > helpful.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Bart
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:55:19 +1000, Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi Bart,
> >>
> >> I believe you are correct in that auditory icons are placed in the tts
> >> queue
> >> and processed along with other tts queue events.
> >>
> >> What server are you using? What is your emacspeak-play-program set to? Can
> >> your setup handle multiple sound sources at the same time i.e. using dmix
> >> or
> >> pulse or a multi-channel card? Have you set emacspeak-default-theme?
> >>
> >> Using the emacspeak-play-program from the command line, can you play a
> >> sound
> >> icon from the shell when emacspeak is running? If not, does it work when
> >> it
> >> is not running? If the latter and not the former, then my guess would be
> >> some sort of sound device contention.
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Bart Bunting <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > Just a quick question.
> >> >
> >> > Are auditory icons handled in the speech server or is
> >> > emacspeak-play-program called directly from emacs?
> >> >
> >> > From my reading of emacspeak-sounds I had thought that a "a" command was
> >> > sent to the speech server.  This does not appear to be happening for me.
> >> >
> >> > Am I missing something here?
> >> >
> >> > Kind regards
> >> >
> >> > Bart
> >> >
> >> >
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Bart Bunting

URSYS Pty. Ltd                                                             
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