A question about running emacspeak on Arch

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hello Alexander and all,

I am using pipewire indeed, so I understand why emacspeak doesn't work.
Thanks for the answer, I'll wait until, and if, they fix this outstanding
bug.
Best regards.
Francisco.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 1:46 PM Linux for blind general discussion <
blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Sincerely, Alexander
>
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