Emacspeak discussion list

[Tim Cross <theophilusx AT gmail.com>]

The problematic defcustom is for emacspeak-play-program not sox-play. It
is defined as

(defcustom emacspeak-play-program
  (or emacspeak-pactl sox-play)
  "Play program.
Pulse: For systems running Pipewire or Pulseaudio.
sox-play: For systems using SoX as the local player.
None: For systems that rely on the speech server playing the icon."
  :type
  '(choice
    (const  :tag "None" nil)
    (const  :tag "Pulse" "/usr/bin/pactl")
    (const  :tag "SoX" "/usr/local/bin/play"))
  :set
  #'(lambda(sym val)
      (set-default sym val)
      (cond; only 3 valid states:
       ((null val) (setq ems--play-args nil)) ; serve icons
       ((string= emacspeak-pactl val); pactl: play-sample
        (setq ems--play-args "play-sample"))
       ((or  (string= "/usr/bin/play" val); sox-play: play file
             (string= "/usr/local/bin/play" val))
        (setq ems--play-args "-q -v 0.4"))))
  :group 'emacspeak)


"T.V Raman" <raman AT google.com> writes:

> 1. I fixed the bug in emacspeak-preamble, later I'll likely move the
>    defconst of emacspeak-icon to emacspeak.el since that is the only
>    place it is used.
>
>    2. I'm confused as to why you hit the location issue with the play
>       executable -- it's defined here:
>       (defconst sox-play (executable-find "play") "Location of play")
>
>       so the location is being detected, not hard-wired.
>
>       I'd like to get to the bottom of that first before deciding
>       what/how we need to address.
> --