Re: [Emacspeak] Question about setting default speech rate

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxx>]

The strength and weakness of emacs and emacspeak is there are usually
more than one way to achieve an outcome. Whikle this provides great
power, it can make helping others or providing configuration advice
challenging.

Along those lines, below is my configuration. Note that this config has
evolved over years and could easily be wrong or have errors - it works
for me, so I leave it alone! I don't even recall why some of the
settings are there!

Also, a very under used resource is the tvr directory which is in the
git repository. This directory contains Raman's emacspeak config and is
an excellent resource for learning how to configure and tweak your
setup.

This is what I have in my init to configure emacspeak.

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/git/emacspeak/trunk/lisp"))

(require 'info)
(add-to-list 'Info-additional-directory-list
             (expand-file-name "info"  (getenv "EMACSPEAK_DIR")))

(setq emacspeak-epub-bookshelf-directory (expand-file-name "~/Documents/bsf")
      emacspeak-epub-calibre-root-dir (expand-file-name "~/Documents/Calibre")
      emacspeak-epub-library-directory (expand-file-name "~/Documents/EBooks")
      emacspeak-eww-inhibit-images nil
      emacspeak-eww-masquerade-as (format "User-Agent: %s\r\n"
                                          "Links (2.29; Linux 6.11.0-13-generic x86_64; GNU C 13.2; text)")
      emacspeak-mail-alert nil
      emacspeak-play-startup-icon nil
      emacspeak-vm-use-raman-settings nil
      espeak-default-speech-rate 270
      outloud-default-speech-rate 80
      dectalk-default-speech-rate 375)

(load-library "emacspeak-setup")



"Greg Wocher" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Thank you. This worked.
>
>
> Greg Wocher
>
>> On Oct 23, 2026, at 1:08 PM, Jeff Dittel <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> This is what I use in my init.el file to set the speech rate:
>> 
>> (dtk-set-rate 230 t)
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> Jeff Dittel
>> 
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~
>> jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> (414) 248-2292
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>>> On Oct 23, 2026, at 12:36 PM, Greg Wocher (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Here is what I am typing:
>>> (setq espeak-default-speech-rate 300)
>>> I know the file is being loaded because emacspeak is loading when I open emacs.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Greg Wocher
>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 23, 2026, at 11:51 AM, Zachary Kline <zkline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> What are you typing? If you can include the lisp, it would be helpful. Are you sure
>>>> your file is actually being executed?
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 23, 2026, at 8:48 AM, Greg Wocher <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> I was able to get emacspeak up and running on my arch installation. I never could get
>>>>> it to work on Fedora 44. I am running into an issue though. I cannot set the default
>>>>> speech rate in my init.el file. No matter how I type the command it does not work. I
>>>>> am using emacs 31.1 which might be part of the issue but I am not sure. What can I do
>>>>> to set the default rate?
>>>>> 
>>>>> THanks,
>>>>> Greg WOcher
>>>>> 
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