Re: Changing speech synthesizers on the fly

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kalyan,

I think what Lukas was saying is that if you want to be able to access
flite-alsa using the emacspeak select server command, the name of the
server must be in a file called .servers (note the dot at the
beginning of the name) file, which is located in the emacspeak/servers
directory. It doesn't really matter where the actual binary is as long
as emacs can find it when it tries to start it running i.e. as long as
its in your path, its OK. However, if the name of the server is not in
the .servers file, you cannot select it using dtk-select-server as
this command uses the .servers file to determine what are valid server
names. In fact, I think you can even use completion to select the
server.

Tim



Kalyan Mukherjea writes:
 > Hi Lucas, Hi Robert,
 > 
 > Lucas: I tried doing what you suggested; that is take the eflite_alsa
 > binary and copied it to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/
 > .
 > 
 > I normally start with a script in the /usr/local/bin called emacspeak,
 > where 
 >  DTK_PROGRAM=full path to the eflite_alsa binary of yours.
 > 
 > When I do C-e dd outloud <RET>
 > Emacspeak says "outloud"  in the flite voice then the reedy voiced
 > announcement
 > "ViaVoice" .
 > 
 > If after this, I again do C-e d d eflite_alsa <RET>
 > I hear a beep from the PC speaker. 
 > C-ea to hear the last announcement gives a sound like water flowing
 > rapidly down a sink! and point remains in the minibuffer. C-g does not
 > remove it. C-x C-c sometimes works to quit emacspeak. 
 > 
 > Robert, before trying to get back to eflite_alsa, I opened your letter
 > in the VM inbox. It read the message in a reedy voice, which seems to
 > have a head cold: "mean" almost sounds like "bean".
 > 
 > I think Robert J. Chassels' info article "Introducing Emacspeak" is in
 > the archives. I will separately send you the section of his .emacs
 > which specifically deals with emacspeak.
 > 
 > Cheers.
 > Kalyan  
 > 
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