Re: What am I missing

[Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, it could be any number of things. You need to establish exactly
what is working. The first thing you should do is make sure that
viavoice is working properly. If you look in
/usr/lib/ViaVoiceTTS/samples/cmdlinespeak you will find a sample
program which you can run to verify via-voice is installed correctly
etc.

If that works, the next step is to test the emacspeak driver. If you
look in the emacspeak Makefile you will see some instructions on how
to test the d\river. If that works, then we need to check out your
emacspeak installation more closely. 

Here are some common problems to watch out for -

1. Do you have permission to access the sound device? A common symptom
here is that you can run the viavoice test program as root and it
works find, but it won't work as a non-root user. Most recent linux
distributions have a group you need to be a member of in order to
access certain devices like the sound device. I think from memory that
Mandrake has an "audio" group and you need to be a member of that
group to get any audio output. Check the Mandrake manual. 

2. Many (most) modern Linux distributions install tcl, but do not
install extended tcl. Make shure you have installed extended tcl. A
symptom of missing extended tcl is that the test of the emacspeak
driver (in this case outloud) will return errors about not being able
to find tcl. 

3. The drivers for the viavoice software speech synth rely on a small
c++ program which may need to be compiled. Check you have a file
called tcleci.so in the servers/linux-outloud directory of the
emacspeak installation. If you don't, then you need to compile the
tcleci.cpp program in the servers/linux-outloud directory by running
make and then make install.

If after all of this it still will not work, then post to the list
again with an outline of what you did and any error/diagnostic
messages which might help track down your problem.

Tim
>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Sinnott <pete_sinnott@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Pete> Hi, I have installed all of the ViaVoice packages and
    Pete> Emacspeak 16.  When I load Emacspeak I get the voice message
    Pete> "this is emacspeak" .  The compile-Log tells me Press C-h
    Pete> C-e to get an overview of emacsapeak 16.0 I am completely
    Pete> operational, and all circuits are functioning perfectly!  I
    Pete> do not hear any sound.  It would appear the system is not
    Pete> working or am I missing something.

    Pete> Pete

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