Re: [Emacspeak] cannot make emacspeak on macbookpro

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The mac-accessibility is necessary to prevent vo conflict with emacs.

I have the dk-program for mac commented out, so the only one it loads is swiftmac.  But still not working properly with that weird speech I previously mentioned.


> On Sep 17, 2024, at 11:57 AM, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I would remove the "ignore accessibility" statement for now. Also, you do not need both "dtk_program "mac" and "dtk_program swiftmac". The latter is probably what you meant.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 3:09 AM John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did the make clean and it compiled OK, but when I ran it, I get some very weird speec.  Here is the portion of my .emacs, I used to run:
> (setq mac-ignore-accessibility t)
> (setq emacspeak-sounds-directory "/Users/covici/emacspeak/sounds")
> 
> ;(setq dtk-program "mac")
> (setq dtk-program "swiftmac")
> (load-file "/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
> (dtk-set-character-scale 0.50)
> 
>  z  
> It runs, but it says things like pitch 1 and pitch range and it speaks very slow.
> 
> 
> > On Sep 15, 2024, at 8:10 PM, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > I assume you installed Emacs prior to trying to compile Emacspeak? If yes, how did you install it?
> > I also assume it's a fresh copy of Emacspeak you are trying to compile? If not, I would definitely recommend running "make clean" prior to making Emacspeak again.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 9:55 AM John Covici <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi.  I am using my MacBook pro under sonoma and I did a git pull in my emacspeak directory, but when I do the make I get errors.  Here is what I get:
> > 
> > 
> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `config'.
> > Source file ‘/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/dtk-speak.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
> > Source file ‘/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/voice-setup.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
> > Source file ‘/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/voice-defs.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
> > Source file ‘/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-pronounce.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
> > Source file ‘/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-sounds.el’ newer than byte-compiled file; using older file
> > 
> > Error: void-variable (emacspeak-aplay)
> >   mapbacktrace(#f(compiled-function (evald func args flags) #<bytecode -0xcf4718cf0512f81>))
> >   debug-early-backtrace()
> >   debug-early(error (void-variable emacspeak-aplay))
> >   #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1015dec542ab777d>)()
> >   funcall(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1015dec542ab777d>))
> >   eval((funcall #'#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1015dec542ab777d>)))
> >   custom-initialize-reset(emacspeak-play-program (funcall #'#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1015dec542ab777d>)))
> >   custom-declare-variable(emacspeak-play-program (funcall #'#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1015dec542ab777d>)) "Play program." :type (choice (const :tag "Alsa" "/usr/bin/aplay") (const :tag "Pulse Basic" "/usr/bin/paplay") (const :tag "Pulse Advanced" "/usr/bin/pactl") (const :tag "SoX" "/usr/bin/play")) :set #f(compiled-function (sym val) #<bytecode 0x66a3d59eb81ec23>) :group emacspeak)
> >   byte-code("\300\301\302\303\304DD\305\306\307\310\311\312\313&\11\207" [custom-declare-variable emacspeak-play-program funcall function #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1015dec542ab777d>) "Play program." :type (choice (const :tag "Alsa" "/usr/bin/aplay") (const :tag "Pulse Basic" "/usr/bin/paplay") (const :tag "Pulse Advanced" "/usr/bin/pactl") (const :tag "SoX" "/usr/bin/play")) :set #f(compiled-function (sym val) #<bytecode 0x66a3d59eb81ec23>) :group emacspeak] 10)
> >   require(emacspeak-sounds)
> >   byte-code("\300\301!\210\302\303!\207" [require emacspeak-sounds cl-proclaim (optimize (safety 0) (speed 3))] 2)
> >   require(emacspeak-pronounce)
> >   mapc(require (dtk-speak voice-setup voice-defs emacspeak-pronounce emacspeak-keymap emacspeak-speak emacspeak-sounds))
> >   load("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-preamble.el" nil t)
> >   command-line-1(("-f" "package-initialize" "--eval" "(setq file-name-handler-alist nil gc-cons-threshold 64000000 load-source-file-function  nil)" "-l" "../lisp/emacspeak-preamble.el" "-l" "../lisp/emacspeak-loaddefs.el" "-f" "batch-byte-compile" "emacspeak-preamble.el"))
> >   command-line()
> >   normal-top-level()
> > Symbol’s value as variable is void: emacspeak-aplay
> > make[1]: *** [emacspeak-preamble.elc] Error 255
> > make: *** [emacspeak] Error 2
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> > 
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