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

Thanks a lot for that clarification.  One note, when I tried to do a
git clone of sharpwin  under windows I got a login dialog asking for a
user name and password -- this did not happen when I tried it under
Linux, so  this was part of my confusion.

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:02:19 -0400,
Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
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> So, this can legitimately be a little confusing, I remember being very
> confused when I first got started with emacspeak. 
> 
> Emacspeak can be thought of as a set of three major components. 
> 
> 1. The emacspeak elisp code, the core.
> 2. The emacspeak servers, written in a bunch of languages and toolkits, they
>    act as bridges to the TTS engines. They communicate using the emacspeak 
>    server protocol, which is what we have been discussing here. 
> 3. The emacspeak build system, this does things like build loaddefs, builds 
>    the .el files into .elc files and has assorted scripts for maintaining 
>    the docs, the info, generating pdfs, tons of great stuff. 
> 
> So, what I have done with SharpWin and swiftmac is added new options to 
> part 2 above, I added new native servers to the list of possible servers. 
> between emacspeak and the native mac and windows tts systems. On Windows 
> the debate is ongoing on the best way to do the build. 
> 
> 
> > On Apr 10, 2024, at 09:43, John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Now, I am very confused -- there is no recemt emacspeak for windows,
> > so how would I use this at all?  HHow would I even compile emacspeak
> > for windows?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:29:40 -0400,
> > Robert Melton wrote:
> >> 
> >> SharpWin is written mostly in .NET Core, but it explicitly uses Windows 
> >> native and built-in
> >> speech server. There are already multiple solutions for Linux 
> >> environments. 
> >> 
> >>> On Apr 10, 2024, at 01:08, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> >>> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Also, could I use your server in the Linux gui such as gnome -- I use
> >>> gnome and orca?
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Robert "robertmeta" Melton
> >> lists AT robertmelton.com
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > you spend it?
> > 
> >         John Covici wb2una
> >         covici AT ccs.covici.com
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