Emacspeak discussion list

[John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com>]

So, I am getting emacspeak to sort of work with a few strange things
happening.  If I arrow over each character its very slow, as though
emacspeak suddenly has a much lower speaking rate.  Also, any line
with a quotation mark, raises the pitch for anything after the
quotation mark.

I want to thank everyone for your help on this one.

On Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:27:10 -0500,
Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> John--
> 
> I think I recreated this and it implies two things:
> 
> 1. You did not install sox (earlier this was recommended as a solution) 
> 2. You are not using the recommended swiftmac auditory icon settings
> 
> I think if you "brew install sox" it will fix your problem, or if you use 
> the recommended swiftmac audio icon play it will fix your problem as well.
> 
> But, in investigating this I think I found a bug in swiftmac audio icon 
> playback, so that was a nice bonus! 
> 
> I would first just "brew install sox" and see if that gets it working. 
> 
> > On Feb 1, 2024, at 09:35, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> > <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> > 
> > OK, after finding the actual emacs binary and doing -nw, I actually
> > get some warning about my .emacs file and so I ran with --debug-init
> > and got the following:
> > 
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> >  make-process(:name nil :buffer nil)
> >    apply(make-process (:name nil :buffer nil))
> >      start-process(nil nil nil "play-sample" "button")
> >   emacspeak-play-auditory-icon(button)
> >     emacspeak-auditory-icon(button)
> >  
> > emacspeak-sounds-select-theme("/Users/covici/emacspeak/sounds/ogg-chimes/")
> >    emacspeak()
> >      (let ((file-name-handler-alist nil)
> >  (load-source-file-function nil)) (load "emacspeak-loaddefs")
> >  (emacspeak))
> >    (if noninteractive nil (let ((file-name-handler-alist nil)
> >  (load-source-file-function nil)) (load "emacspeak-loaddefs")
> >  (emacspeak)))
> >    eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*-856885> nil
> >  "/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil t)  ; Reading
> >  at buffer position 2150
> >    
> > load-with-code-conversion("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el"
> >  "/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil nil)
> >    load("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil nil t)
> >      load-file("/Users/covici/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
> >   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/covici/.emacs" nil
> >  t)  ; Reading at buffer position 3837
> >    load-with-code-conversion("/Users/covici/.emacs"
> >  "/Users/covici/.emacs" t t)
> >    load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
> >      startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
> >  0x1569ad0cc53c31>) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
> >  -0x1f3c61addc0b5af5>) t)
> >    command-line()
> > On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:04:51 -0500,
> > Parham Doustdar (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> >> 
> >> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> >> Also, if mplayer ends up not being the issue, can you clarify what you 
> >> mean by “some sort of fatal error”? What sort? :-) Also, any tracebacks?
> >> 
> >>> On 31 Jan 2024, at 13:40, John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for your quick response.
> >>> 
> >>> I did make clean, make confiig and make whenever I changed the
> >>> emacspeak I was using.  I did tryy to load emacspeak using esc-x
> >>> load-file, but I got some kind of fatal error when trying to do that.
> >>> Since this is a mac, would I need mplayer and sox?
> >>> 
> >>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 06:36:08 -0500,
> >>> Parham Doustdar (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> [1  <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>]
> >>>> Hi John,
> >>>> There could be many reasons for this, so I’m going to throw a whole 
> >>>> bunch of steps at you to see which one works, haha.
> >>>> First, have you tried running `make clean` and `make` when you either 
> >>>> go back to a release or to the git HEAD?
> >>>> Also, do you have Emacspeak dependencies, notably mplayer and sox 
> >>>> installed?
> >>>> If you do all this, we’ll need to figure out what happens when you 
> >>>> load Emacspeak. I’m not sure of the best way to do this given your 
> >>>> configuration, but maybe try the emacs -Q that you did before, and do 
> >>>> M-: (load-file “~/src/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”) or whatever 
> >>>> your emacspeak path is, and see if you can read the buffer contents 
> >>>> with the errors, maybe from th e*Messages* buffer.
> >>>> Hope this gives you a few next steps to debug the issue!
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On 31 Jan 2024, at 12:28, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> >>>>> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Hi everyone. So, I think this started after upgrading to emacs 29.1.
> >>>>> What happens is that after emacspeak is loaded emacs does not work --
> >>>>> escape followed by x types x in the buffer.  c-x followed by b does
> >>>>> nothing at all.  Many other things don't seem to work as they should.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> So, I started on the hunt.  I am using the railway casc out of
> >>>>> homebrew, but the same thing happens with the original emacs macport.
> >>>>> So, the first thing I did was from the terrminal typed
> >>>>> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-29.1-mac-10.0/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacx
> >>>>> -q  to see if it was my settings.  Sure enough, emacs was functioning,
> >>>>> I knew this because vo read  some things and I could actually hear m-x
> >>>>> when I typed esc-x .  So, I then fooled around with my .emacs file and
> >>>>> sure enough, the load of emacspeak was the problem.  I was using
> >>>>> emacspeak from git and I went back to emacs 59, but no joy.  I am
> >>>>> stumped after that, so any suggestions as to how to debug further
> >>>>> would be appreciated.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Thanks all.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> -- 
> >>>>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> >>>>> How do
> >>>>> you spend it?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>       John Covici wb2una
> >>>>>       covici AT ccs.covici.com
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> >>> How do
> >>> you spend it?
> >>> 
> >>>        John Covici wb2una
> >>>        covici AT ccs.covici.com
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> > 
> >         John Covici wb2una
> >         covici AT ccs.covici.com
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How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici AT ccs.covici.com