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Re: [Emacspeak] Phasing out the Mac speech server?


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  • From: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
  • To: "T.V Raman" <raman AT google.com>
  • Cc: Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>, Parham Doustdar <parham90 AT gmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Phasing out the Mac speech server?
  • Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:14:57 -0400

I think this got a bit confused because swiftmac 2 broke compatibility with
the
python mac server.

So to be clear:

1. Adding swiftmac 2.x support does not require touching the python mac
server
or supporting code in any way.
2. Swiftmac 2.x will need some new settings as it has incompatible values
from
the python mac server, for example range value the mac default rate takes
is
an integer and not compatible with the 0.0 to 1.0 float that swiftmac now
requires.
3. The above will be done by switching on the server selection of swiftmac
and
and then calling swiftmac-configure-tts and using / setting up any
swiftmac
specific defcustom of defvar's.
4. The intent is to keep these changes very boxed in to a few changes to like
voice setup and mac-voices (to add a swiftmac-configure-tts).

Lets make sure we don't conflate the adding of proper complete swiftmac
support
with the removal of the old python mac server.


> On Apr 17, 2024, at 10:32, T.V Raman (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>
> A lot of this sounds like highly corporate busy work, and I intend to
> do none of that -- or at least not yet.
>
> 1. The next Emacspeak release will go out as is the source tree at the
> end of this month.
> 2. mac-voices works perfectly well as of now with switfmac and mac so no
> change.
> 3. After this release, I'll be marking servers/mac deprecated,
> i.e. it'll get no changes unless we can find an owner (unlikely).
> 4. In the version after this one, I'll mark servers/mac obsolete, ie
> users use it at their own peril and get to keep both pieces when it braks.
> 5. Next year, I'll move servers/mac to the attic, and that will also
> have given us enough time to see if we need a separate
> swiftmac-voices.el
>
>
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