[Emacspeak] Mac OS Monterey upgrade causes emacspeak to not load

[Jeff Dittel <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

My name is Jeff Dittel and I use emacspeak everyday on my job as a senior software engineer. I have a serious problem because emacspeak is no longer working.

I recently upgraded my Mac to Monterey 12.31, and when I start emacs the init.el file crashes at the line:

(load-file "~/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”)

The “emacs —debug-init” command gives the following output:

File Edit Options Buffers Tools Debugger Help                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                     |Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Buffer *scratch* has no process")
                                                                                                                     |  process-send-string(nil "tts_sync_state all 0 0 1 100 \n")
                                                                                                                     |  tts-configure-synthesis-setup()
                                                                                                                     |  emacspeak()
                                                                                                                     |  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*-447347> nil "/Users/jeffdittel/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspea$
                                                                                                                     |  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/jeffdittel/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" "/U$
                                                                                                                     |  load("/Users/jeffdittel/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el" nil nil t)
                                                                                                                     |  load-file("~/Sources/emacspeak-master/emacspeak-master/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
                                                                                                                     |  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 493
                                                                                                                     |  load-with-code-conversion("/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init.el" "/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
                                                                                                                     |  load("/Users/jeffdittel/.emacs.d/init" t t)
                                                                                                                     |  #[0 "^H\205\262^@     \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202;^@ \311=\204^^^@\307^H\312Q\202;^@\313\307\314\315#\203*^@\316\2$
                                                                                                                     |  command-line()
                                                                                                                     |  normal-top-level()
                                                                                                                     |
                                                                                                                     |

Can someone help fix the emacspeak-setup.el file?

Thanks,

Jeff

Jeff Dittel
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