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[Александар Средојевић <ferrumite666 AT gmail.com>]

Hi Adr,
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:13:15 +0000 (UTC), adr <adr AT sdf.org> wrote:
> I'm curious about EMACSPEAK_PLAY. Would not be better to use just
> emacspeak-play-program and remove the use of that variable? Or use
> just the variable? I don't understand the separation of the two of
> them.
I guess it's a leftover back from the days when sox didn't exist (emacspeak
dates from the early 90s) and I guess this sort of flexability never hearts.
> Sox is a dependency, and it's available in any unix-like system.
> Why not use "play" as the default audio player?
This is actually a good point, something I haven't gotten bitten by yet 
because
I've set emacspeak-auditory-icon-function to emacspeak-play-auditory-icon, 
which
uses play as expected.

Another thing that I keep forgetting to report and that might be an issue for
your case: the path to play is hard coded in tts-lib.tcl (for the various 
beeps)
as /usr/bin/play, which could instead be, say, /usr/local/bin/play. If the 
path
is wrong it will work just won't play the beeps, which is why I guess it 
didn't
get reported yet.

Thank you for helping the project out like this.

-- 
Kind Regards,

Aleksandar