[Emacspeak] Re: Getting Started

[Soundarya Kumar Pradhan <soun.chess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I am sorry for reviving a very old thread, but I am responding to this
for reference.

I followed all the steps suggested by Devin, It did get my emacspeak
set up, but the voice I get with outloud is extremely raspy, and it is
totally illegible.

However the voxin in orca seems to be working fine.

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 in vmware on a windows 11 laptop.

Could you please advise?

Thanks and regards,
Soundarya


On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:47 AM Richard Wells via Emacspeak
<emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> wrote:
>
> I have Voxin on that ubuntu laptop, but if I get into too much trouble trying to install emacs, I may give up and go for slint. I hope I can get my Voxin installed on slint and working if I have to go that route.
>
> On 11/30/2021 10:51 AM, Devin Prater via Emacspeak wrote:
>
> 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)
>
> 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(a)gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 9:26 AM Richard Wells via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> 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(a)gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 8:06 PM Richard Wells via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> 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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