Re: Problems setting up EmacSpeak

["Brian L. Sellden" <Brian@henge.com>]

Bryan,
  You should ask this question on the emacspeak list -
you'll probably get a better response.

Brian.

>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Smart <bsmart@pobox.com> writes:

  Bryan> Hey everyone.  I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me
  Bryan> will be able to tell me what I've missed in this atempt to
  Bryan> install EmacSpeak.

  Bryan> First, this is a fresh install of Linux.  Most everything is
  Bryan> installed except X11.  Included in that is Emacs (with the
  Bryan> NOX package to allow Emacs to be run with out X).

  Bryan> I've unpacked EmacSpeak and have atempted to make it.

  Bryan> The first snafoo comes when I don't get any DecTalk feedback
  Bryan> during the make.  I have a DecTalk Express on Comm1, and I'm
  Bryan> trying to use it on /dev/ttys0 like this....

  Bryan> make emacspeak "dectalk=>/dev/ttys0"

  Bryan> This does not produce any feedback during the make.
  Bryan> Similarly, sending strings of text to /dev/ttys0 doesn't
  Bryan> produce any speech either.  I'm not sure if the DecTalk needs
  Bryan> some kind of initialization string before it will speak raw
  Bryan> text over the port or not, so I can't be sure that I have a
  Bryan> communications problem.  Again, this is a freshly installed
  Bryan> system, so I'm assuming the defaults here.  My serial ports
  Bryan> are also not using any nonstandard port addresses or IRQ
  Bryan> assignments.

  Bryan> After the make appears to go well, launching EmacSpeak as
  Bryan> described starts Emacs, but I still do not receive any speech
  Bryan> from the DecTalk.

  Bryan> It is very difficult for me to dig around in what is going on
  Bryan> as I currently lack any speech access to this system and must
  Bryan> obtain help from nontechy sighted people.  I hope that this
  Bryan> is something common that can be semi-easily fixed.

  Bryan> Any help is appreciated.

  Bryan> Best, Bryan

  Bryan> -- Bryan Smart email: bsmart@pobox.com

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User of Emacspeak 6.0,  making Unix talk.
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