[Emacspeak] Re: TTS on Mac Vanetura ...

[Till Blesik <till.blesik@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pedro,

TLDR: try uninstalling pulseaudio and maybe reinstalling Sox.

Long story:
I was actually thinking about asking the mailing list if someone had the same issues and writing down my journey. I phased the same problem and it drove me crazy because I found no good way to debug. It felt as if the soubdserver got overloaded easily. When I did a lot of „sudden movements“ or triggered a process wir lots of output, like a pip install, in ansi-Term, I could almost always get it to fail.

Here is all the stuff that I tried which probably didn’t solve it but since this describes the working setup I ended now up with, I will include it.

- I tried different Python versions going back to 3.8.12
- I switched from railwaycats to the eMacs-plus brew and activated native-comp
- I tested if Doom might cause it and in the end just make sure to have the most recent t version (which by the way brings in a newer vertigo so I can now again follow the emacspeak branch)

Now, what I think finally solved it:
I brew uninstalled sox and pulsesudio, which resulted in emacs not starting if emacspeak is loaded. I reinstalled sox and now everything works perfectly since a few days.

Long story short: check if you have pulseaudio installed and uninstall it. If you still have issues, reinstall sox. Of course don’t fortgebt to clean, configure and make in between.

I wonder if pulseaudio has an issue with macOS 13 or if just the comvibation with emacspeak and the soubdserver has some issue. 

Best regards,
Till

> On 3. Dec 2022, at 12:36, Pedro Pina via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi from Portugal,
> 
> I'm a software engineer, I work for an aerospace company developing in python and c++ languages. I've been using Emacspeak for the last few years, and it's now a fundamental tool for me. I congratulate and thank the development team.
> 
> I use a Mac with an M1 processor, everything went well until I installed the Mac Ventura. Every 5 minutes or less the TTS crashes and I have to restart it.
> 
> To configure emacspeak, I created a virtual environment in python, installed pyobjc. Finally I changed the first line of the server/Mac file for the virtual environment.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Any way to fix this problem?
> 
> Thank you all.
> 
> All the best from Portugal,
> P.
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