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Re: [Emacspeak] Regression in Swiftmac git: broken audio playback


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  • From: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
  • To: Arkadiusz <nuno69a AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Andrew Leland <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Regression in Swiftmac git: broken audio playback
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:50:54 -0400

What version of MacOS are you on? The new version does need 14+ but I thought
that was relatively safe. Will dig into why it might be breaking.

> On Oct 26, 2025, at 10:12, Arkadiusz (via emacspeak Mailing List)
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> today I'd like to describe a regression that was introduced in Swiftmac 3.x.
> Problem: Audio playback via AVFoundation is broken. Only certain sounds of
> Emacspeak play. Tone player is unaffected.
> Solution: change the emacspeak-play-program variable from "nil" to
> "sox-play". Keep in mind that the file "swiftmac-voices.el" is overiding
> that variable on startup. My pitch is to remove this definition at all to
> make behavior inline with other speech servers, allowing the user to
> customize the behavior according to need.
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