[Emacspeak] Re: a couple of possibly basic questions about emacspeak on the mac

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:57:44 -0400,
Tim Cross via Emacspeak wrote:
> 
> 
> John Covici via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi.  I have some questions about emacspeak, I am running a Macbook pro
> > 2016 with 16G of ram and Monterey 12.3.1.  Now when running emacs 28.1
> > and emacspeak, if the speech server on the mac has to say a single
> > character, either when I type it myself, or using the right arrow key,
> > it says it at a high rate of speed, much higher than when it reads
> > lines or words, etc.  I have my rate set to 320, so I would like to
> > hear single characters at the same speed.
> >
> > I have installed emacs macport from macports, any way to silence vo
> > when I am in that application?  I saw a post a while ago to install
> > something from homebrew, but I am using macports and am not sure I can
> > have both at the same time.
> >
> 
> Just replying to basically let you know your message hasn't been
> ignored!!
> 
> I've never used macports and my mac book is too old to install the
> latest macOS, so I cannot help. Curious though, how do you know a single
> character is being spoken at a high rate of speed? (I'm not even sure
> what 'speed' means in that context - it is a single character, so speed
> relative to what?)
> 
> With regards to silencing VO while in Emacs, there is an option
> available in the railwaycat/emacsmacport cask for homebrew, but it is
> specific to that port (i.e. not part of vanilla emacs), so I suspect if
> your using macports your out of luck and need to be using homebrew.

Thanks for your quick response.

So, I did install homebrew and installed the casc, where is the option
to silence vo?

Also, it seems very fast to me, when vo speaks a single character, it
sounds OK, when emacspeak speaks it, it sounds very fast, as though I
had the rate set higher.  For instance, if you go into text edit and
let vo speak a character  as opposed to when emacs speaks it.

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