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- From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran AT gmail.com>
- To: Jerry Sievers <gsievers19 AT comcast.net>
- Cc: Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>, Arkadiusz <nuno69a AT gmail.com>
- Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 22:42:14 -0700
Thanks Jerry.
Arkadiusz, that’s pretty much the syntax. You can then experiment with
various voices. If you look into SwiftMac source directory, you will find
there is a SWIFT script that will allow you to list all the voices available
on your system along with their identifiers.
> On Jul 7, 2025, at 5:18 PM, Jerry Sievers (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>
> "Arkadiusz" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
> writes:
>
>> Ni hao,
>> As I wrote in my introduction E-Mail I am an iOS/MacOS developer and I
>> use Swift to make my remarkably buggy apps. I found that I can install
>> swift-mode from within Emax. I did install it, but legendary
>> Emacspeak's audio syntax highlighting doesn't work. No matter if I am
>> in function, statement, I write correct or incorrect code, everything
>> is spoken in the same kind of voice.
>> Does the developer of Emacspeak need to rewrite every plugin to make it
>> support this feature or I need to configure something?
>> I am using Emacs for less than a day so please, bear with me.
>
> Greetings and welcome.
>
> I recall wondering why SwiftMAc driver was not doing any voice lock
> but then upon browsing the docs somewhere (github maybe) I found the
> below... put it into my init.el file and it works.
>
> ; examples of messing with voices
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-bolden " [{voice en_US:Fred}] [[pitch 0.8]]
> " )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-animate " [{voice en-US:Kit}] [[pitch 1]] "
> )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-animate-extra " [{voice en-US:Kit}] [[pitch
> 1.5 ]] " )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-lighten " [{voice en-AU:Matilda}] [[pitch
> 1]] " )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-lighten-extra " [{voice en-AU:Matilda}]
> [[pitch 1.1]] " )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-smoothen " [{voice en-UK:Daniel}] [[pitch
> 1]] " )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-monotone " [{voice en-US:Eddy}] [[pitch 1]]
> " )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-monotone-extra " [{voice en-US:Eddy}]
> [[pitch 1.5]] " )
>
> FWIW, speech performance and reliability is somewhat reduced for
> certain types of content and I am in the habit of temporarily
> disabling voice-=lock at times, but it's generally nice to have it all
> enabled by default.
>
> Good luck!
>
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- [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Arkadiusz, 07/07/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Victor Tsaran, 07/07/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Arkadiusz, 07/07/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Jerry Sievers, 07/08/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Victor Tsaran, 07/08/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Arkadiusz, 07/08/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Victor Tsaran, 07/08/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Arkadiusz, 07/08/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Victor Tsaran, 07/08/2025
- Re: [Emacspeak] Noob Question: getting swift-mode to work with Emacspeak, Victor Tsaran, 07/07/2025
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