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[Bart Bunting <bart AT bunting.net.au>]

I can’t add any useful advice to the specific topic. However, I found the software DECtalk compiled and runs fine under WSL. It may be an alternative for you if you can’t get Whistler to work.

On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 at 2:28 am, Ľuboš Pinteš <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:

Unfortunately this does not work for me.

Emacspeak thinks everything is ok, but I believe no connection was
established between global plugin and the process under WSL.

Internetworking between Windows and WSL is fairly new for me, so
currently I don't know what to do next.


Dňa 3. 3. 2025 o 3:59 Dhruv (via emacspeak Mailing List) napísal(a):
> I threw together a quick hack to get Emacspeak on WSL outputting to
> NVDA. I've been running it for the past few months, and it's been
> serving me well. It doesn't have fancy features yet (changing
> pitch/rate for links etc) but it suffices for what I want. (Note that
> it'll probably only work on WSL2, I haven't tested on WSL1 yet.)
>
> the repository is at https://github.com/wiresong/whistler. Try it out,
> let me know how it goes. I'm unlikely to update it much further-unless
> I get bored on a weekend-but if anyone wants to take up adding support
> for pitch/prosody/etc, I'd welcome pull requests.
>
> - Dhruv
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