That espeak script wouldn't allow me to run it even as root earlier, however, emacspeak -e <cr> does bring up emacspeak speaking. So I think I'm on the home stretch by now.On Mon, 9 May 2011, Tim Cross wrote: > > Hi Jude, > > what you have done is not correct. The tclespeak.so file is loaded by the > espeak script. The DTK_PROGRAM should be set to espeak NOT tclespeak. > > I never do make install for emacspeak as I prefer to keep it all in directories > under my home directory. What you should try, before doing any make install and > after doing make in the linux-espeak directory is > > 1. Check that the espeak script in the servers directory is executable > 2. Just run this script and you should hear it speak via espeak. You can use > control d to exit or you can use normal espeak TTS commands to queue and then > speak more text (see the emacspeak main Makefile for a description). If that > all works, then you know that the espeak emacspeak server works. If you then > run make install, you may need to track down paths and permission issues, but > at least you know the server and synthesizer do work with the versions of tcl > you have etc. > > Tim > > Jude DaShiell writes: > > not compatible and here's why. The make install puts a directory in > > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/linux-espeak/ which has only > > one file in it called tclespeak.so. I changed DTK_PROGRAM to tclespeak > > and emacspeak still leaves error message file to attach to process is a > > directory. Now why that happens is above my pay grade to answer. > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the > > emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" with a > > subject of "unsubscribe" or "help". > > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list