[Emacspeak] Re: Getting Started

[Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try pressing C-e d o in Emacs. Control e, then d, o. This should switch to the Outloud speech server.

Devin Prater

r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxxxx

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 8:59 AM John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi.  So, I am not using ubuntu, but I followed your instructions and
got no errors, but when I run emacs, I get process speaker not
running.  I have voxin working under orca, but not under emacspeak.


On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:51:54 -0500,
Devin Prater via Emacspeak wrote:
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> For Ubuntu, install Emacs:
> sudo apt install emacs
> also install git, mplayer, espeak-ng, tcl, and tclx You might have to
> instal tcl-dev* or tclx-dev* if it exists.
>
> Now,:
>
> git clone https://www.github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/
> cd emacspeak
> make
>
> now you have two options. Well, you could have more, but I doubt you have
> any hardware speech synthesizers. You can use ESpeak, and it works okay,
> but doesn't sound great. Or, you can install Voxin, from:
>
> Voxin: Home (oralux.org) <https://voxin.oralux.org/>
>
> It sounds a lot better, and works better with Emacspeak, too. Now, if you
> want to use Emacspeak with ESpeak:
>
> make espeak
>
> or with Voxin:
>
> make outloud
>
> Do pay attention to any error messages you get during any of these steps.
> If it says you don't have something, like:
>
> make: GCC: command not found
>
> install GCC like:
>
> sudo apt install gcc
>
> also it's a good idea to have the command-not-found package:
>
> sudo apt install command-not-found
>
> Now, install nano:
>
> sudo apt install nano
>
> and do
>
> nano ~/.emacs.el
>
> and paste, or write, the following, using the call to the speech server
> you're going to use:
>
> (load-file "~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
> ;; If you're using ESpeak:
> ;; (espeak)
> ;; If you're using Voxin:
> (outloud)
>
> If you don't git clone stuff into the root of your home directory, which
> you shouldn't do as I do because it can get messy if you let it, do change
> the load path to wherever you cloned Emacspeak.
>
> The call to the speech server is a hack and Doctor Raman may have a good 16
> reasons not to do this, but it works, and I don't have to fiddle with
> .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, .shrc, .rc, or any other file to get
> Emacs working with Emacspeak.
>
> Now, save your .emacs.el file, which Emacs loads when it starts, by
> pressing Control o, then Enter, then Control x. Now, you should be back at
> a shell, so try running Emacs by typing
>
> emacs
>
> and pressing Enter. Let us know if it works.
>
> Devin Prater
> r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 9:26 AM Richard Wells via Emacspeak <
> emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have a working ubuntu distribution running on a little laptop, but I can
> > do something different if I need to in order to make the setup easier.
> > On 11/30/2021 8:27 AM, Devin Prater wrote:
> >
> > First, which OS are you planning on using Emacspeak on?
> > Devin Prater
> > r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 8:06 PM Richard Wells via Emacspeak <
> > emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello: My name is Richard wells. I have been hearing about this
> >> environment for many years but have never investigated it for myself.
> >> For someone like me who has no idea at all where to go to get started,
> >> how would you suggest I begin learning? My experience with computers has
> >> been diverse with some Linux, but mostly Microsoft Windows and Apple
> >> Macintosh. Please be gentle with a user with absolutely no idea of what
> >> emacspeak is and how to get productive using it.
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