Emacspeak and eSpeak

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Wed Oct 5 12:59:40 UTC 2016


The last time I built emacspeak with eflite and had it working the 
prerequisites turned out to be flite and speech-tools packages.  That 
may have changed by now since I did that I think 4 years ago.

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Devin Prater wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 08:11:38
> From: Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: Fernando Botelho <Fernando.Botelho at F123.org>
> Subject: Re: Emacspeak and eSpeak
> 
> Espeak support is "unmaintained", so it could break with any new release of eSpeak that may come along. There is an Eflite server, if you can get it working, that links flite with Emacspeak.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 4, 2016, at 8:07 PM, Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Fernando" == Fernando Botelho <Fernando.Botelho at F123.org> writes:
>>
>>    Fernando> Does anybody think using eSpeak instead of Festival is a
>>    Fernando> bad idea?
>>
>> The emacspeak espeak support is depressingly fiddly to get working, but
>> it is well worth doing.
>>
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