A question about running emacspeak on Arch

[Linux for blind general discussion]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:00:23PM +0000, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Hello everyone,

hello Francisco.
>
> Last night I installed emacspeak on Arch Linux from the aur, version 54.0
> with yay, but I am having a problem: whenever i type
> emacspeak
> in a terminal, it tells me to choose a synthesizer, but i can't choose
> either espeak, or espeak-ng, because no matter what i do, arrows, tab,
> emacspeak doesn't play a sound.

did you use pipewire? unfortunately emacspeak don't work with PW at the moment.

> After I press tab, in fact, an emacs panel opens, and nothing speaks inside
> it except orca.
> Does Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?
> I'd like to try and get into emacspeak, so to see what it can and can't do.
> Best regards.
> Francisco.

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Sincerely, Alexander