Re: speechd-el issues / questions

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Concerning speechd-el issues, you may have a better luck asking on

https://github.com/brailcom/speechd-el

Samuel

Otto Diesenbacher-Reinmüller, le mer. 10 avril 2024 11:55:58 +0200, a ecrit:
> Dear Milan & users of speechd-el,
> 
> at first - let me thank you for speechd-el. In the very difficult
> situation of having to adapt to being visually impaired, it gives me
> the chance to stay in control of my computer. IMHO
> speechd-el/speech-dispatcher + emacs are life savers for technical
> skilled users, superior to any commercial screen reader.
> 
> Following let me raise some issues (or misconfigurations /
> misconceivings by me) that I encounter using speechd-el for some
> weeks, thanks for any hints or advice:
> * swallowing first char after entering mini-buffer
> - having set speechd-speak-echo to 'character:
> f.e. if I type <C-x f> minibuffer is entered, and "Find file" +
> current directory starts to be spoken. But I don't wait for the whole
> text to be spoken, and start typing, speechd-el is interrupted, but
> the first character I typed isn't spoken but inserted. Second and
> following characters are spoken correctly. This is rather irritating.
> 
> I tried to increase the priority of f.e. speechd-default-char-priority
> and the other priorty-related variables. But same result.
> * 'C-e C-l'-spell-mode does not work
> spell mode isn't working. AFAIU actual spelling is done by
> speech-dispatcher? Do I need any additional configuration of
> speech-dispatcher for enabling spell-mode?
> * make a pause speaking
> I enjoy listening to EBooks opened in nov.el or other longer texts in
> text buffers.  Is there any way, to get a short pause in between
> paragraphs while speaking the whole buffer?  F.e. that 2 consecutively
> following line-endss get converted to a 1 second pause?
> * filter or substitute characters
> Some texts that I listen to include some strange unicode characters
> for quote, f..e. "»". These get spoken, even with punctiation-mode set
> to 'none.
> I am aware, that I can edit symbols.dic in speech-dispatcher, but is
> there also client-side way of filtering or substituting such chars,
> perhaps even buffer-local?
> * donations?
> I would like to support the development of speechd-el. What is the
> best way to donate some bucks specifically to speechd-el?
> * for reference - my system
> curren archlinux
> speech-dispatcher 0.11.5
> using voices from voxin
> speechd-el - current master from git
> GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.41, cairo
> version 1.18.0) of 2024-04-05
> 
> my speechd-el specific Emacs config, see [1]https://diesenbacher.net/blog/
> entries/Updated-speechd-el-config.html
> perhaps also of interest for other speechd-el users.
> 
> again - many thanks!
> 
> br okflo
> 
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] https://diesenbacher.net/blog/entries/Updated-speechd-el-config.html