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[<bart AT bunting.net.au>]

Isaac,

I'm sorry I have no immediate answer for your Mac issues as I'm not currently 
using a Mac.

The question of paused development was one that I had been recently pondering.

I have no idea about Raman's situation or when/if he will return to Emacspeak 
development so can't comment on that.

Over the period there have been several people who have made patches to 
address various bugs/issues and to my knowledge there is currently no central 
place for them to reside.

Robert Melton has a GitHub repo with some additional Emacspeak modules that 
speech enable some newer Emacs packages at:
https://github.com/robertmeta/emacspeak-support

It would be nice if there was a fork of Emacspeak that included patches sent 
to the list until such time as Raman is able to spend time on Emacspeak again.

The real question is who has the time and experience to maintain such a fork?

Kind regards

Bart

-----Original Message-----
From: emacspeak-request AT emacspeak.net <emacspeak-request AT emacspeak.net> On 
Behalf Of Isaac Leonard (via emacspeak Mailing List)
Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2026 12:41 PM
To: emacspeak AT emacspeak.net
Subject: [Emacspeak] Development updates and slow speech

Hi All
It’s been a while since I’ve interacted with the mailing list so apologies if 
I am covering previously discussed topics.

I recently updated my MacBook to macOS 26.3 and have since been experiencing 
far slower speech feedback from emacspeak with typing in Ido buffers seeming 
to almost have a 1 second delay and far greater delays when scrolling even 
moderately large buffers though that might be related to other processes like 
LSP.
I’ve reinstalled emacs to make sure that wasn’t the problem but nothing 
changed.
I went to go and update emacspeak as it has been a while since I had built 
the latest version and noticed that there were no updates and the last commit 
on the GitHub was made a year and a half ago in august 2024.
I searched the archives and found that T.V. Raman had to step away from the 
project however I imagine this hasn’t halted development entirely as the list 
seems to still be relatively active.
Is there somewhere new that changes are being made until T.V. Raman can 
return to the project?

If not, what is the plan going forward for emacspeak as I imagine future 
changes to emacs will eventually mean it will stop working properly.

In the mean time, does anyone know what I could try to make the speech return 
to normal for me?

Best Regards, Isaac