Changing Emacspeak default settings and making them stick?

Changing Emacspeak default settings and making them stick?

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Where are the appropriate files to fix these three issues? No matter how 
many times I change it universally, emacspeak always comes up saying 
"capital capital capital capital capital capital capital..." Its default 
espeak voice is not US and the accent makes it hard to understand. The 
volume is two low. These defaults are driving me nuts! Thanks.

Re: Changing Emacspeak default settings and making them stick?

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Hit control-h then hit i to bring up info inside emacs or just run info 
emacs outside of emacs.
Once you have done that type /customizing emacs<cr> and then read.
One of these times if you haven't yet done it it may help to type info 
info <cr> at the command prompt and read.
To do what you need after that learning you'll need to find emacspeak 
inside the customize utility and you may want to put a couple semicolons 
in front of the emacspeak line in either your .emacs file or your 
~/.emacs.d/init.el file first.
This way emacspeak is temporarily shut off.
When you get emacspeak customized and those changes saved you'll want to 
remove those semicolons and try emacspeak out with your customizations 
in place.

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> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:47:49
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> Subject: Changing Emacspeak default settings and making them stick?
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> Where are the appropriate files to fix these three issues? No matter how many 
> times I change it universally, emacspeak always comes up saying "capital 
> capital capital capital capital capital capital..." Its default espeak voice 
> is not US and the accent makes it hard to understand. The volume is two low. 
> These defaults are driving me nuts! Thanks.
>
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Re: Changing Emacspeak default settings and making them stick?

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Amanda Lacy <lacy925@gmail.com> writes:

> Where are the appropriate files to fix these three issues? No matter
> how many times I change it universally, emacspeak always comes up
> saying "capital capital capital capital capital capital capital..."

What version of Emacspeak are you using?  The capital issue has been
fixed for a very long time.  I'm guessing you're using some distro
package that has not been updated.
Nowadays, the espeak server indicates capitals with a pitch rise, like
many other things do.

With very recent emacspeak, it's pretty easy to set the espeak
language.
In fact, if you have en_US or en_US.UTF8 in your locale settings, it'll
default to the "US" voice.  There are a couple ways to change it: change
your LANG environment variable (used by everything on the system),
change the LANGUAGE environment variable (only used by emacspeak
servers), or use the dtk-set-language Emacs Lisp function.  But all this
presumes you have the newest emacspeak, 45.0, or a version checked out
from git.

As for volume, the espeak server never modifies this; it just uses
eSpeak's default.  In fact, as of right now, there's no way to modify
any synthesizer's volume directly from emacspeak.  The eSpeak library
does let one change the volume, so it would be nice if this was
user-adjustable.  It would require a few patches, and a new command
would need to be added to the TTS server protocol.  I'm more than
willing to write the patches.

-- Chris