[Emacspeak] Re: Mac OS Monterey upgrade causes emacspeak to not load

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

Lol, Apple support barely knows what VoiceOver (Mac screen reader) is, let alone the Invested nature of Emacspeak!

Devin Prater

r.d.t.prater@xxxxxxxxxxx

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 9:34 AM T.V Raman via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jeff Dittel via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Have you tried calling Apple support since as you say "it is an
emergency"?

The rest of us here are volunteers.
> Sorry, donâ??t mean to be dramatic, but I cannot work until I get emacspeak working. Current state:
>
> * Running ./servers/mac I still get module not found Foundation
> * When I start emacs I get the organ and the â??This is emacspeakâ??
> However, emacspeak is silent
> * When I do a make ESPEAK, there is an error canâ??t find a C++ header file.
> * Below is my ~/.emacs.d/init.el file
>
> Apparently, I need to get some TTS server running?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
> (base) .emacs.d 1010 $ cat init.el
> (setq load-path (cons "~/emacspeak/lisp" load-path))
> (setq emacspeak-directory "~/emacspeak")
> (setq dtk-program "mac")
> (setq emacspeak-character-echo nil)
> (setq line-move-visual nil)
> (setq bookmark-save-flag 1)
> (load-file "~/emacspeak/lisp/mac-voices.el")
> (load-file "~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
> (setq mac-default-speech-rate 350)
> (setq dtk-set-rate 350)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-x r d") 'bookmark-delete)
>
>
>
>
>> On Apr 17, 2022, at 7:12 PM, Victor Tsaran via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Can't say anything about Espeak, but the Python version I am running is 3.10.4.
>> Regarding the Mac server though. What kind of output do you get if you switch to the emacspeak/servers directory and then run
>> python3 ./mac
>> from there? Do you get the "Emacspeak server" message or a traceback error from Python?
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:38 AM Jeff Dittel <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I still cannot figure out how to install the Foundation module in
>> the environment that the ./servers/mac script is trying to run in. I
>> thought of just using a different TTS server, so I tried to make
>> ESPEAK, and that failed too. Below is the output, but it looks like
>> it cannot find a C++ header file. That seems odd.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> (base) emacspeak 1030 $ make espeak
>> c++ -g    -O2 -fPIC  -DPIC  -pedantic -ansi -Wall -Wno-long-long --std=c++11   -c -o tclespeak.o tclespeak.cpp
>> tclespeak.cpp:41:10: fatal error: 'espeak-ng/speak_lib.h' file not found
>> #include <espeak-ng/speak_lib.h>
>>          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> 1 error generated.
>> make[1]: *** [tclespeak.o] Error 1
>> Can't build espeak server!
>> (base) emacspeak 1031 $
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 16, 2022, at 3:35 PM, Victor Tsaran via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Also, even after you update your Emacspeak repository.
>> > Depending on which Python3 installation you are using, you might
>> > need to install a pyobjc-framework-cocoa package which includes a
>> > wrapper for the Foundation framework needed by the Mac speech
>> > server.
>> > Simply use "pip install pyobjc-framework-cocoa" command to install the package.
>> > You also need to ensure that Python3 is in your path, otherwise, the server script will complain.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps.
>> > Victor
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 9:14 AM Parham Doustdar via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Jeff,
>> > Have you tried doing `make clean` and then `make emacspeak` on the
>> > latest git version? Also, David just submitted a patch to make the
>> > Mac speech server work on MacOS 12.3+, so do a `git pull` before
>> > running make, too.
>> > Let me know how it goes.
>> > Best,
>> > Parham
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 5:37 PM Jeff Dittel via Emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > My name is Jeff Dittel and I use emacspeak everyday on my job as a
>> > senior software engineer. I have a serious problem because
>> > emacspeak is no longer working.
>> >
>> > I recently upgraded my Mac to Monterey 12.31, and when I start emacs the init.el file crashes at the line:
>> >
>> > (load-file "~/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.elâ??)
>> >
>> > The â??emacs â??debug-initâ?? command gives the following output:
>> >
>> > File Edit Options Buffers Tools Debugger Help
>> >                                                                                                                      |Debugger
>> > entered--Lisp error: (error "Buffer *scratch* has no process")
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > process-send-string(nil "tts_sync_state all 0 0 1 100 \n")
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > tts-configure-synthesis-setup()
>> >                                                                                                                      |  emacspeak()
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*-447347> nil
>> > "/Users/jeffdittel/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspea$
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > load-with-code-conversion("/Users/jeffdittel/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el"
>> > "/U$
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > load("/Users/jeffdittel/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el"
>> > nil nil t)
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > load-file("~/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil
>> > "/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer
>> > position 493
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > load-with-code-conversion("/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init.el"
>> > "/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > load("/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init" t t)
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> > #[0 "^H\205\262^@ \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202;^@
>> > \311=\204^^^@\307^H\312Q\202;^@\313\307\314\315#\203*^@\316\2$
>> >                                                                                                                      |  command-line()
>> >                                                                                                                      |  normal-top-level()
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> >                                                                                                                      |
>> >
>> > Can someone help fix the emacspeak-setup.el file?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> > Jeff Dittel
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~
>> > jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> > (414) 248-2292
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