tcl-8.5 and emacspeak espeak server

[Jude DaShiell]

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.
>  > 
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