Re: [Emacspeak] Announcing "swiftmac" a new voice server for MacOS

["T.V Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Only additional refinement: use setopt -- not setq


"Robert Melton" (via emacspeak Mailing List) writes:
 > >> Victor
 > 
 > Victor--
 > 
 > Yep, works perfect on my end, but it doesn't matter as Parham is correct, I am doing it wrong.  I will be changing it in the docs. 
 > 
 > > On Jan 20, 2024, at 02:58, Parham Doustdar <parham90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > > 
 > > Hi,
 > > As far as I've learned reading emacspeak code, the right way to set the rate seems to be customizing the mac-default-speech-rate variable.
 > > Victor, I didn't get an error when I first tried that function. Can you show us the error or a traceback so we get a better idea of what you're encountering?
 > > Sent from my iPhone
 > > 
 > >> On Jan 20, 2024, at 06:33, Victor Tsaran <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >> 
 > >> Hi RObert.
 > >> Not sure if it works on your end, but even though it is a valid function, it prevents my Emacspeak from loading when I use it in my initialization file.
 > >> The Emacs debugger is equally unhappy when I start Emacs with the --debug-init option.
 > >> Does it work for you?
 > >> 
 > >> 
 > >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 7:13 PM Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >> What in specific do you think is wrong with that line? 
 > >> 
 > >> > On Jan 19, 2024, at 21:28, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >> > 
 > >> > Hi Robert!
 > >> > Meant to write this earlier but keep forgetting.
 > >> > I think the README for the SWIFTMac server includes some incorrect instructions, like the set-dtk-rate form for the initialization file.
 > >> > Thanks so much for your work on this!
 > >> > 
 > >> > 
 > >> > On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 7:21 PM Robert Melton <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >> > > On Apr 6, 2023, at 21:42, Quin Marilyn <quin.marilyn05@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >> > > 
 > >> > > Hey there, how do I use this thing? Like, make it my default speech server? I cloned it and ran make install, and then the readme tells me to change my speech server in init.el, but I never set it there, and am not entirely sure how or what the proper variable to set is.
 > >> > 
 > >> > I didn't even know Emacspeak would work without a server set.  But here is a snippet from my init.el 
 > >> > 
 > >> >   (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/emacspeak/lisp" load-path))
 > >> >   (setq emacspeak-directory "~/.emacs.d/emacspeak")
 > >> >   (setq dtk-program "swiftmac")
 > >> >   (require 'emacspeak-setup)
 > >> >   (dtk-set-rate 275 t)
 > >> > 
 > >> > 
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