Speechd-el Customization

[Steve Holmes]

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Interesting about the broken spelling function.  Yes, I can arrow
around in the editor environment but I just thought I'd point this out
as spelling is a pretty basic function for screen reader type
technology.  And yes, I'm using speech dispatcher and espeak.

I got the customization to work.  It is definitely a new area to me.
I've always been used to hard coding the variables in .emacs.  Is
there a variable index for speechd-el? I would like to save permenant
values for speech rate.  I didn't see anything like that in the
customication area.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:36:10PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "SH" == Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> writes:
> 
>     SH> in the info pages, it says that there should be a 'speechd-el'
>     SH> customization group.  Alas I cannot find any such group.  I
>     SH> chose customize from the menu after pressing F10 and I browsed
>     SH> the available groups but no speechd-el.
> 
> It's in the `Environment' subgroup.  But it's easier to access it
> directly with `M-x customize-group RET speechd-el RET'.
> 
>     SH> Also, I tried the spell function and it doesn't appear to work.
>     SH> I did a C-e C-l C-e w as suggested in the info page to spell the
>     SH> current word and it just spoke the word again; it did not spell
>     SH> it.
> 
> Indeed, it doesn't work, at least in some situations.  I can see what's
> the problem but I can't see an easy way to fix it now.
> 
> Please note that spelling doesn't seem to work at all for me in Speech
> Dispatcher when using eSpeak and with Festival it works only when using
> recent festival-freebsoft-utils from CVS.
> 
> I think some of the spelling problems have been present unnoticed for
> long time; I guess most users simply use character reading when moving
> the cursor instead of using real spelling functions.  This may be your
> work around until the speechd-el bug gets fixed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Milan Zamazal
> 
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