[Emacspeak] Re: a couple of possibly basic questions about emacspeak on the mac

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 01:59:37 -0400,
Tim Cross wrote:
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> 
> John Covici <covici(a)ccs.covici.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:57:44 -0400,
> > Tim Cross via Emacspeak wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> John Covici via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Hi.  I have some questions about emacspeak, I am running a Macbook pro
> >> > 2016 with 16G of ram and Monterey 12.3.1.  Now when running emacs 28.1
> >> > and emacspeak, if the speech server on the mac has to say a single
> >> > character, either when I type it myself, or using the right arrow key,
> >> > it says it at a high rate of speed, much higher than when it reads
> >> > lines or words, etc.  I have my rate set to 320, so I would like to
> >> > hear single characters at the same speed.
> >> >
> >> > I have installed emacs macport from macports, any way to silence vo
> >> > when I am in that application?  I saw a post a while ago to install
> >> > something from homebrew, but I am using macports and am not sure I can
> >> > have both at the same time.
> >> >
> >> 
> >> Just replying to basically let you know your message hasn't been
> >> ignored!!
> >> 
> >> I've never used macports and my mac book is too old to install the
> >> latest macOS, so I cannot help. Curious though, how do you know a single
> >> character is being spoken at a high rate of speed? (I'm not even sure
> >> what 'speed' means in that context - it is a single character, so speed
> >> relative to what?)
> >> 
> >> With regards to silencing VO while in Emacs, there is an option
> >> available in the railwaycat/emacsmacport cask for homebrew, but it is
> >> specific to that port (i.e. not part of vanilla emacs), so I suspect if
> >> your using macports your out of luck and need to be using homebrew.
> >
> > Thanks for your quick response.
> >
> > So, I did install homebrew and installed the casc, where is the option
> > to silence vo?
> >
> 
> I don't have my mac book with me right now, but from memory, you have to
> set the variable mac-ignore-accessibility to t in your emacs init file. 
> 
> Note that this is classified as an experimental feature and it is known
> to have some 'glitches' (but I have no details on what those might be). 

I also found something interesting while looking at the manual.  There
is a control sequence c-edf which scales the speech rate while
speaking characters.  If I set this to 0.9 then single characters
sound normal instead of what seems very fast to me.

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