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  • From: Parham Doustdar <parham90 AT gmail.com>
  • To: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
  • Cc: Arkadiusz <nuno69a AT gmail.com>, Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] Regression in Swiftmac git: broken audio playback
  • Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:20:20 +0100

Hi,
I tried swiftmac today, and although this issue was fixed, I ran into an issue with the makefile, specifically the way it uses sed. I seem to have a different version, probably thanks to brew, and I had to do some magic to make it work. I found this with google and I’m not really familiar with how sed works, so please excuse me if it’s not the right way, it did fix it for me though:
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Makefile | 2 +-

modified   Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ support-files:
  @cp cloud-swiftmac $(SERVERS)/cloud-swiftmac
  @cp swiftmac-voices.el $(LISP)/swiftmac-voices.el
  @cp log-swiftmac $(SERVERS)/log-swiftmac
- @sed -i '' '/swiftmac/d' $(SERVERS)/.servers
+ @sed -i.bak '/swiftmac/d' $(SERVERS)/.servers && rm $(SERVERS)/.servers.bak
  @echo "swiftmac" >>  $(SERVERS)/.servers
  @echo "log-swiftmac" >> $(SERVERS)/.servers
  @echo "cloud-swiftmac" >> $(SERVERS)/.servers


On 4 Nov 2025, at 16:55, Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:

Arkadiusz--

Thanks for flagging this bug. My configuration was hiding it,

I now have a clean emacs config to test with and believe I fixed these issues, impacted 
more than just the two places you flagged. 

When you have a moment checkout the new 3.5.0 release.  

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025, at 8:50 PM, Robert Melton wrote:
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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