Re: persistent auditory icon player setting

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

1) Please do not use private email for questions --if I
answer them privately it helps you and no one else.
--see "Asking Questions The Smart Way"--

2) Answering questions like this would be easier if you
specified your environment e.g. what TTS etc rather than
leaving it to me to guess.

My best guess at what is happening here is that you're using
ViaVoice TTS -- in this case, use wave auditory icons only
if your soundcard is multichannel capable.

If it indeed is, customize emacspeak and let it know of this
fact, otherwise emacspeak *will* switch to midi icons 
if you're using ViaVoice  TTS --
if you try to use Viavoice TTS and wave auditory icons on a
soundcard that is not multichannel capable the speech will
die a horrible death.


p.s. the bit about aliasing below is a red-herring and not
relevant to your problem.

>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Sievers <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Jerry> hi raman.  i proceeded to use custom to set the
    Jerry> icon player and arranged to have this loaded at
    Jerry> startup.  in fact, i had already done this prior
    Jerry> to posting but forgotten.

    Jerry> but, to no avail.

    Jerry> each time icons are toggled on, the player
    Jerry> function is reset to emacspeak-midi-icon.

    Jerry> i noticed that this is an alias for something
    Jerry> like emacspeak-play-midi-icon.

    Jerry> went ahead and re aliased this to
    Jerry> emacspeak-play-auditory-icon.  of course, i don't
    Jerry> like this solution.

    Jerry> am i loading the customized settings the wrong
    Jerry> way or out of order?

    Jerry> i run emacspeak by entering emacspeak on the
    Jerry> shell command line immediatly after login.  the
    Jerry> command to load the file of customizations is in
    Jerry> the dot emacs file.

    Jerry> also noticed that a custom setting, for example a
    Jerry> change in outloud default speech rate is not
    Jerry> effective till the first manual tts-restart.

    Jerry> thanks.


    >> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:08:33 -0800 Cc:
    >> emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx From: "T. V. Raman"
    >> <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-to: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx
    >> 
    >> use the customize interface to set such things.  M-x
    >> customize-group ret emacspeak
    >>>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Sievers
    >>>>>>> <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    >>
    Jerry> hello.  i just got RedHat 7 running and
    Jerry> immediatly installed emacspeak 15 with no
    Jerry> difficulty.
    >>
    Jerry> great job raman!
    >>
    Jerry> my problem is that i have to set auditory icon
    Jerry> player to emacspeak-play-auditory-icon before
    Jerry> hearing the icons.  i tested all four of the
    Jerry> options like midi, native etc. and that one is
    Jerry> the only one that works with my machine.
    >>
    Jerry> what puzzles me though, is that if i toggle
    Jerry> auditory icons off in a buffer, then on again, i
    Jerry> have to reset the player again also.
    >>
    Jerry> took a look at emacspeak-customize but, if
    Jerry> setting these defaults is in there, i missed it.
    >>
    Jerry> so, how do you set the global default icon player
    Jerry> and also globally enable icon playing?
    >>
    Jerry> took a look around in emacspeak-sounds.el without
    Jerry> learning what i'm doing wrong.
    >>
    Jerry> thanks.
    >>
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    Jerry> --
    Jerry> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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    Jerry> Administrator/Consultant 305 321-1144 (mobile)
    Jerry> http://www.JerrySievers.com/~gsievers/
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--raman

      
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