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Re: What am I missing
you can compile tcleci.cpp without the sdk installed as of
Emacspeak 15.0
please check your facts before jumping to conclusions.
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Tim> Yes, your right. I'd forgotten that. It also means
Tim> you cannot compile the tcleci.cpp file, which of
Tim> course you should no longer need to do as I believe
Tim> a compiled version comes with emacspeak versions
Tim> 15.0 or higher.
Tim> Tim
>>>>> "Janina" == Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Janina> Tim: It seems the command line ViaVoice test scripts are
Janina> Janina> installed by the sdk and not the rtk, so he may not have
Janina> them as the latest emacspeak works with only the rtk
Janina> installed.
Janina> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Tim Cross wrote:
>>> Well, it could be any number of things. You need to establish
>>> exactly what is working. The first thing you should do is make
>> sure that viavoice is working properly. If you look in
>> /usr/lib/ViaVoiceTTS/samples/cmdlinespeak you will find a
>> sample program which you can run to verify via-voice is
>> installed correctly etc.
>>
>> If that works, the next step is to test the emacspeak
>> driver. If you look in the emacspeak Makefile you will see some
>> instructions on how to test the d\river. If that works, then we
>> need to check out your emacspeak installation more closely.
>>
>> Here are some common problems to watch out for -
>>
>> 1. Do you have permission to access the sound device? A common
>> symptom here is that you can run the viavoice test program as
>> root and it works find, but it won't work as a non-root
>> user. Most recent linux distributions have a group you need to
>> be a member of in order to access certain devices like the
>> sound device. I think from memory that Mandrake has an "audio"
>> group and you need to be a member of that group to get any
>> audio output. Check the Mandrake manual.
>>
>> 2. Many (most) modern Linux distributions install tcl, but do
>> not install extended tcl. Make shure you have installed
>> extended tcl. A symptom of missing extended tcl is that the
>> test of the emacspeak driver (in this case outloud) will return
>> errors about not being able to find tcl.
>>
>> 3. The drivers for the viavoice software speech synth rely on a
>> small c++ program which may need to be compiled. Check you have
>> a file called tcleci.so in the servers/linux-outloud directory
>> of the emacspeak installation. If you don't, then you need to
>> compile the tcleci.cpp program in the servers/linux-outloud
>> directory by running make and then make install.
>>
>> If after all of this it still will not work, then post to the
>> list again with an outline of what you did and any
>> error/diagnostic messages which might help track down your
>> problem.
>>
>> Tim >>>>> "Pete" == Pete Sinnott <pete_sinnott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> writes:
>>
Pete> Hi, I have installed all of the ViaVoice packages and
Pete> Pete> Emacspeak 16. When I load Emacspeak I get the voice message
Pete> "this is emacspeak" . The compile-Log tells me Press C-h
Pete> C-e to get an overview of emacsapeak 16.0 I am completely
Pete> operational, and all circuits are functioning perfectly! I
Pete> do not hear any sound. It would appear the system is not
Pete> working or am I missing something.
>>>
Pete> Pete
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