RE: espeakf experiences (was Re: Best advice for new user)

["Barak Zalstein" <Barak.Zalstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert J. Chassell [mailto:bob@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:09 AM
> To: Barak Zalstein
> Cc: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: espeakf experiences (was Re: Best advice for new user)
> 
> 
>    I've tried installing espeakf from CVS and activating it using
>    Robert J. Chassell's script (which worked fine with eflite, only
>    modification required was renaming /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin).  
> 
> What did you need to rename from /usr/bin/ to /usr/local/bin/?  Should
> I describe it?  I build CVS snapshots of Emacs in /usr/local/bin/, but
> my emacspeak scripts are in /usr/bin/.  On second thought, the scripts
> should be in /usr/local/bin/.  However, I do not plan to change them
> unless pressed.
I think that eflite default configuration make the command "make install" put it 
in /usr/local/bin.
I'll need to check again when re-installing, but I'm reading eflite-0.3.6.tar.gz/INSTALL now, and paragraph 5.1
says:

(start quote)
=== 5.1. Emacspeak:
- Set DTK_TCL to the location of your EFlite binary.  If you use
/usr/bin/emacspeak, then it may be easiest to place  a line similar to the
following into emacspeak.conf:
export DTK_TCL=/usr/local/bin/eflite

Alternatively, the following shell script should get Emacspeak running with
EFlite, although you may need to edit some path names:

#!/bin/sh

export EMACS_UNIBYTE=1
export DTK_TCL=/usr/local/bin/eflite
emacs -q -l /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el
# You may want to add "-l $HOME/.emacs" to the previous line
(end quote)

As I don't know where my emacspeak.conf is and the suggested shell script did not accept additional parameters
(like file name to open), I just changed the script you suggested in the "Best advice for new user" from:
export DTK_TCL=/usr/bin/eflite
into:
export DTK_TCL=/usr/local/bin/eflite

And everything worked fine.

> 
> 
>    I experienced a weird behavior: it wouldn't say words, letters, or
>    numbers, but it would say correctly characters like '/' (slash) and
>    '.' (dot)
> 
Since the espeakf package dumps what its doing into /tmp/festival.log file, 
maybe some test should be added in order to validate emacspeak+espeakf functionality and enable trouble shooting.
What I understand till now from the logfile, is that the festival server ready=0
instead of 1 some of the time, which might be the reason.

Barak.
> That is strange.  I cannot reproduce the behavior.  I just tested the
> following using espeakf and, after setting dtk-set-punctuations to
> all, I heard everything:
> 
>     word 12 34 l m n / .
> 
> Best wishes.
> 
> -- 
>     Robert J. Chassell                         Rattlesnake Enterprises
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