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

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 01:17:24 -0400,
Tim Cross wrote:
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> John Covici <covici(a)ccs.covici.com> writes:
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> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 01:59:37 -0400,
> > Tim Cross wrote:
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> >> 
> >> John Covici <covici(a)ccs.covici.com> writes:
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> >> > 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?
> >> >
> >> 
> >> I don't have my mac book with me right now, but from memory, you have to
> >> set the variable mac-ignore-accessibility to t in your emacs init file. 
> > Thanks, that worked, but I saw another error which I would like to
> > correct:
> >
> > Warning (comp): /Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-preamble.el:
> > Error: Symbol's value as variable is void emacspeak-sounds-directory
> >
> 
> How did you install emacspeak?
> 
> I don't see that error.
> 
> Note that warnings are just warnings and you will sometimes see those.
> Errors are of course errors and you should not see them. I don't see
> this error building from head of current repository.
> 
> It is VERY critical that if you are building form git, after doing a git
> pull, you must first do make clean and then make. Forgetting to do make
> clean can result in an inconsistent result.

I am not sure, I did make config and then make.  I might have done a
make clean before the git pull.  What is more strange is that if I do
control-h v for that variable, I do get a correct value, so I am not
sure why the error occurrs at all.

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