Re: FYI: Debian, Knoppix/Oralux and Emacspeak
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> wrote:
> I am a little bit confused towards what your actual question is.
This is the question:
> jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) writes:
[...]
> > Do you have any suggestions to try?
> You seem to have problems getting eflite to work with emacspeak.
> However, as far as I could see, you did not include anything which
> might help us with figuring out what your actual problem is.
> Could you at least try and give a concret problem description? What did
> you exactly do and what was the result?
I followed Chassell's instruction and failed:
>> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> wrote:
[...]
> >> > apt-get install emacs21 emacs21-el emacspeak eflite festival
[...]
> >> > After running `apt-get', you should be able to run Emacspeak by
> >> > typing
> >> >
> >> > emacspeak
> >> >
> >> > in a shell.
> jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) writes:
> > emacspeak/eflite installed from Debian unstable package is mute on
> > my computer.
[...]
> > On 05 Aug 2003 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:
[...]
> >> Unfortunately, not always it is so simple. For example, it does not
> >> work for me (Knoppix-based Debian unstable).
> Maybe people can help you then. Of course, it would even be better if
> you could file a proper bug report against the package which does not
> work correctly for you, in this case most likely eflite.
I don't know what is the culprit.
> Last time I verified it, after installing eflite and emacspeak,
> emacspeakconfig does offer eflite as a speech server, and if choosen, works
> correctly.
Is emacspeakconfig run automatically during packet installation? I
don't think I have been asked such a question. If it is a user who is
to run emacsconfig, then Chasell's instruction is incomplete and
misleading.
> Note that eflite is compile for OSS support, and would might
> need OSS emulation when using ALSA.
Knoppix uses OSS by default, and my report concerns OSS.
Howewer, to use Oralux on my computer I have to choose ALSA and it
doesn't seem to affect emacspeak; perhaps it uses the emulation you
mentioned.
Best regards
Janusz
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