Re: Problems as a new emacs/speechd-el user

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "CCU" == Cleverson Casarin Uliana <speechd@clul.router5.com> writes:

    CCU> As for m-< and m->, they still don't work, perhaps due to my
    CCU> keyboard layout not being standard American, but I discovered
    CCU> that using the esc key + < / > works, so it's OK.

Meta and other keys may not be recognized in some terminals.  Graphical
version of Emacs in X or Wayland works well with all keys, also
multimedia keys etc.

    CCU> * c-e c-a to make this voice the default;
    CCU> * m-x customize-variable to check whether
    CCU> speechd-connection-voices and speechd-voices are OK. the first
    CCU> is OK, but the second appears not to be. Instead of showing the
    CCU> voice parameters in the usual customization appearance, it
    CCU> shows the lisp expression, and at the state line, it says
    CCU> "mismatch" at the end, and it doesn't let me save for future
    CCU> sessions.

I can reproduce it.  The problem is that speechd-voices content doesn’t
match its customization specification.  I’ll try to fix it after the
holidays.

    CCU> On another topic, I've just tried to use c-e c-l to spell a few
    CCU> things, but spelling isn't working apparantly. Even when I
    CCU> activate speechd-speak-spell-mode. It seems not to take any
    CCU> effect, nothing is spelled out.

The same here.  I’ll look at it too.  In the meantime, you can move with
left and right arrow keys over the text to get the characters spelled.

    CCU> and lastly, just as a suggestion, I'd like to see in Speechd-el
    CCU> a phonetic spelling feature, where you could spell using the
    CCU> phonetic alphabet, e.g. alpha, bravo, charlie etc.

Spelling is handled by Speech Dispatcher, so best to redirect the
suggestion there (if not already available).  speechd-el just tells
Speech Dispatcher whether to spell or not.

Regards,
Milan