[Emacspeak] Emacspeak fails to start under WSL2

[Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Trying to run Emacs 27.1 with Emacspeak commit 3b35ec3 under Debian 11 Bullseye on Windows 11 through WSL2.

Both the Espeak and Outloud speech servers produce speech when running via the shell, but when I try and start Emacs the start-up icon plays for about a second and then Emacs hangs.

My minimal init.el is as follows:

(setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" "outloud")                                                                                       

(load-file "/home/codeofdusk/.emacs.d/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")

 

Any suggestions to help get this going?

 

Thanks in advance,

Bill