difficulty with emacspeak and dectalk RT

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,

The problem you are having is with the code for tcldtk.c (the shared
library used by tcl to communicate with the software dectalk. This is
a known problem with the code that is distributed with emacspeak. I
have changed the C code so that it works. You can get a copy of my
modified tcldtk.c code from my website at 

http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~tcross

This modified code works with verison 5 of the software
dectalk. However, you may need to change the makefile - I run under
Debian and the location of the header files and names of the extended
tcl libraries are different to those on Red Hat. At any rate, I can
say the software dectalk definately works as I use it daily. However,
it does 'die' from time to time - but you just need to issue C-e C-s
to restart the server when this happens. 

Tim


Daniel A. Galron writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I am having difficulty getting emacspeak working with dectalk RT on a 
 > Fedora Core 3 system. Dectalk RT works - I can use the "say" program 
 > just fine. However, when I try to test the speech server, I get the 
 > following error:
 > 
 > [galron@xxxxxxxxxxx ~]$ tcl 
 > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/dtk-soft
 > Calling tts startup.
 > tts startup returned 11
 > Error:
 > %s: TextToSpeechStartup failed,
 > 
 >     while executing
 > "load $tclTTS/tcldtk.so"
 >     (file "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/dtk-soft" line 305)
 > 
 > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be going wrong?
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Daniel
 > 
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