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  • From: "T.V Raman" <raman AT google.com>
  • To: lists AT robertmelton.com
  • Cc: parham90 AT gmail.com, vtsaran AT gmail.com, emacspeak AT emacspeak.net, quin.marilyn05 AT gmail.com
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Announcing "swiftmac" a new voice server for MacOS
  • Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:07:53 -0800

Only additional refinement: use setopt -- not setq


"Robert Melton" (via emacspeak Mailing List) writes:
> >> Victor
>
> Victor--
>
> Yep, works perfect on my end, but it doesn't matter as Parham is correct,
> I am doing it wrong. I will be changing it in the docs.
>
> > On Jan 20, 2024, at 02:58, Parham Doustdar <parham90 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > As far as I've learned reading emacspeak code, the right way to set the
> > rate seems to be customizing the mac-default-speech-rate variable.
> > Victor, I didn't get an error when I first tried that function. Can you
> > show us the error or a traceback so we get a better idea of what you're
> > encountering?
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Jan 20, 2024, at 06:33, Victor Tsaran <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi RObert.
> >> Not sure if it works on your end, but even though it is a valid
> >> function, it prevents my Emacspeak from loading when I use it in my
> >> initialization file.
> >> The Emacs debugger is equally unhappy when I start Emacs with the
> >> --debug-init option.
> >> Does it work for you?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 7:13 PM Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> What in specific do you think is wrong with that line?
> >>
> >> > On Jan 19, 2024, at 21:28, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi Robert!
> >> > Meant to write this earlier but keep forgetting.
> >> > I think the README for the SWIFTMac server includes some incorrect
> >> > instructions, like the set-dtk-rate form for the initialization file.
> >> > Thanks so much for your work on this!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 7:21 PM Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > > On Apr 6, 2023, at 21:42, Quin Marilyn <quin.marilyn05 AT gmail.com>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Hey there, how do I use this thing? Like, make it my default speech
> >> > > server? I cloned it and ran make install, and then the readme tells
> >> > > me to change my speech server in init.el, but I never set it there,
> >> > > and am not entirely sure how or what the proper variable to set is.
> >> >
> >> > I didn't even know Emacspeak would work without a server set. But
> >> > here is a snippet from my init.el
> >> >
> >> > (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/emacspeak/lisp" load-path))
> >> > (setq emacspeak-directory "~/.emacs.d/emacspeak")
> >> > (setq dtk-program "swiftmac")
> >> > (require 'emacspeak-setup)
> >> > (dtk-set-rate 275 t)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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