Re:Emacspeak outloud server on Debian Lenny

[Rob Hill <robhill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ramon, Tim, and list,

No, that doesn't seem to be the answer.  I have tcl8.4 installed, and
the TCL_PROGRAM  environment wasn't set, although I've now set it to
/usr/bin/tclsh to be sure.  

Also, I tried reverting to emacspeak 28.0 and tcl8.3, tclx8.3.  This
gave the same result:  the server compiled OK in the linux-outloud
directory, ./ outloud and tcl outloud spoke the welcome message, but
still the "process speaker not running" result on starting emacspeak.  

I must be missing something somewhere. 

Rob 


Tim Cross writes:
 > 
 > Rob,
 > 
 > note that the emacspeak servers switched from using extended TCL to normal
 > tcl a couple of months back. This means that the program than needs to run
 > is tclsh and not tcl. This would be why you had to set the symlink. 
 > 
 > Check that you don't have the TCL_PROGRAM environment variable set to
 > /usr/bin/tcl and then check your startup scripts etc in case you still have
 > something hanging around that is making emacspeak think it has to run the
 > outloud server with tcl rather than tclsh. 
 > 
 > I can tell you that it does work. I started with a ubuntu running lenny 
 > the vibuntu image in fact, which is what vinux was called before ubuntu got
 > precious regarding their brand name!). I then did a distribution upgrade to
 > jaunty and will possibly upgrae to karmic when I get around to it. I'm
 > running karmic on a fresh non-vinux box at work. 
 > 
 > The only problem I had was with libtool and that has since been fixed by
 > Raman. So, my guess is that either there are some old settings you have
 > that make emacspeak look for tcl rather than tclsh. 
 > 
 > HTH
 > 
 > Tim
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Rob Hill writes:
 >  > Hello list,
 >  > 
 >  > I'm having trouble getting the outloud server to work on a  clean
 >  > install of debian Lenny- or actually vinux, which is a way of getting
 >  > an accessible debian install.
 >  > 
 >  > So I'm running:
 >  > 
 >  > debian lenny
 >  > emacspeak 31.0
 >  > emacs 23.1.1 
 >  > 
 >  > The espeak server built fine, and emacspeak works with espeak.
 >  > Outloud (from Voxin) works with orca fine.
 >  > 
 >  > The linux-outloud server compiled OK once I'd installed
 >  > libasound2-dev.
 >  > 
 >  > >From the servers directory,  $ ./outloud speaks the welcome message,
 >  > "via voice using alsa"  I had to add the line:
 >  > 
 >  > export ECIINI=/var/opt/IBM/ibmtts/cfg/eci.ini
 >  > 
 >  > to my .bashrc file to get this to work.
 >  > 
 >  > >From the servers directory, $ tcl outloud didn't work until I aliased
 >  > tcl to tclsh, but now it does.
 >  > 
 >  > So all the outloud tests appear OK, but when I try to change to it
 >  > with emacspeak running, I get the message "process speaker not
 >  > running".   The same happens if I try to set outloud as the default
 >  > tts for emacspeak.  
 >  > 
 >  > Any suggestions welcomed.  
 >  > 
 >  > Rob
 >  > 
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 > Tim Cross
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 > 
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 > 
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