Emacspeak discussion list

[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

Thanks, yeah, the range for rate is -10 to 10, but I don't do a check for 
that.

As a lot of the Windows values will be strange to new users, I should gate 
them
all, volume is 0 to 100, speech rate is -10 to 10. etc.  I use 8 so I guess I 
didn't bump into this. 

> On Apr 11, 2024, at 12:01, Tyler Spivey (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> 
> Here's how I got this to work. Adjust paths as needed.
> 
> winget install Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.8
> winget install GNU.Emacs
> Emacs was placed in C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs-29.3_2\bin so I had to add 
> that to path.
> 
> $env:EMACSPEAK_DIR="c:\users\tyler\emacspeak"
> .\make.ps1
> 
> After it built, and all the emacspeak files were compiled, I ran sharpwin 
> and made sure I could get it to talk.
> However, I can't quit it with EOF (ctrl+z), it just says Error: Object 
> reference not set to an instance of an object.
> 
> By default, emacs on Windows thinks application data is my home directory, 
> because it looks for HOME which isn't set.
> I don't want that to be my home directory, so set HOME to c:\users\tyler in 
> environment variables.
> 
> Next I created ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
> (setenv "DTK_PROGRAM" "sharpwin")
> (load-file (expand-file-name "~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el"))
> 
> That's the absolute minimal init.el I needed to get it going.
> If you send it a rate out of range, the server just won't talk. This comes 
> into play by default with the scaling factor for character echo. I haven't 
> debugged it. Far better would just be to use the maximum rate it supports.
> 
> On 4/11/2024 7:55 AM, "T.V Raman"" (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
>> dos-impaired path-separators?
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