Bug 1551686 - emacspeak does not speak
Summary: emacspeak does not speak
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: emacspeak
Version: 34
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jens Petersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-03-05 17:44 UTC by Ondřej Lysoněk
Modified: 2021-07-08 01:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: emacspeak-54.0-2.fc33
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Last Closed: 2021-07-08 01:07:53 UTC
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Description Ondřej Lysoněk 2018-03-05 17:44:43 UTC
Description of problem:
emacspeak does not produce any voice output.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
emacspeak-40.0-10.fc27.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run emacspeak, either in a graphical session, or in a console.
2. Start typing.
3.

Actual results:
No voice output.

Expected results:
emacspeak should speak as I type.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 16:46:41 UTC
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Comment 2 Ondřej Lysoněk 2018-11-28 11:42:59 UTC
Still reproducible on F28.

Not sure if it's relevant, but upon starting emacspeak, I get the following error on the bar at the bottom of the window:
Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, /lisp/emacspeak-setup.el

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 20:13:15 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 28. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as
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Comment 4 Ondřej Lysoněk 2019-05-03 10:00:29 UTC
Still reproducible with emacspeak-45.0-3.fc29.x86_64.

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 19:25:07 UTC
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 29 on 2019-11-26.
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Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2019-11-27 22:25:32 UTC
Fedora 29 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-11-26. Fedora 29 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2019-11-28 02:22:22 UTC
I don't think emacspeak repeats what you type, it reads context from files/commands etc.
Though I haven't tried it in a while and there are few users, so it is quite possible something is broken...
Which speak engine and language are you using?

Comment 8 Ondřej Lysoněk 2019-11-28 11:24:02 UTC
(In reply to Jens Petersen from comment #7)
> I don't think emacspeak repeats what you type, it reads context from
> files/commands etc.

That was not the right expectation I suppose. However it doesn't speak either if I a) open a file containing some text, b) fire up Dired with a directory listing, c) open an info page.

> Though I haven't tried it in a while and there are few users, so it is quite
> possible something is broken...

I should note that I don't use it either. I just noticed that it doesn't seem to work when I wanted to convert it to use espeak-ng instead of espeak.

It still prints the following error message in the minibuffer upon startup, so it really looks like it's broken.
Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, /lisp/emacspeak-setup.el

> Which speak engine and language are you using?

I think it should use espeak, which gets installed as a dependency. I didn't configure it in any way. Is that necessary? I thought it would work out of the box.

Comment 9 Jens Petersen 2019-11-28 13:17:08 UTC
Okay thanks.  You're testing on F31?

I will try to look at it later, but I also have little time for this package...
If someone wants to take over that would be welcome.
Over the years I had very few feedback on the package, so thank you.

Comment 10 Ondřej Lysoněk 2019-11-28 14:08:45 UTC
(In reply to Jens Petersen from comment #9)
> Okay thanks.  You're testing on F31?

No, still on F29. I'll try to re-test it once I upgrade.

> I will try to look at it later, but I also have little time for this
> package...

I completely understand.

> If someone wants to take over that would be welcome.
> Over the years I had very few feedback on the package, so thank you.

I'm glad it's appreciated. Thanks for your time. :)

Comment 11 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 20:40:42 UTC
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Fedora 'version' of '30'.

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to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 30 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 12 Ben Cotton 2020-05-26 17:56:42 UTC
Fedora 30 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-05-26. Fedora 30 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the
current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
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Comment 13 Ondřej Lysoněk 2020-05-27 09:20:34 UTC
Still broken on F31.

The problem is directly in /usr/bin/emacspeak, where it says:
exec emacs -q -l /lisp/emacspeak-setup.el $INITSTR $CL_ALL

If I change that to
exec emacs -q -l /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el $INITSTR $CL_ALL

then it starts to work.

Comment 14 Ben Cotton 2020-11-03 15:00:41 UTC
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 31 on 2020-11-24.
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Fedora 'version' of '31'.

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to a later Fedora version.

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able to fix it before Fedora 31 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 15 Ben Cotton 2020-11-24 20:10:51 UTC
Fedora 31 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-11-24. Fedora 31 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the
current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 16 Jens Petersen 2021-06-28 10:44:50 UTC
Seems just the emacspeak shell script had a problem path.

But I can't get espeak to say anything inside...

Comment 17 Jens Petersen 2021-06-28 11:01:49 UTC
Is espeak-ng compatible with espeak?
The commandline seems to be anyway?

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2021-06-29 13:44:45 UTC
FEDORA-2021-4c2713e53a has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-4c2713e53a

Comment 19 Jens Petersen 2021-06-29 13:47:29 UTC
Also pushed to F34 but I am not getting any audio output via emacs as I noted above: F33 seems fine.

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2021-06-30 14:20:10 UTC
FEDORA-2021-4c2713e53a has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-4c2713e53a`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-4c2713e53a

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2021-07-08 01:07:53 UTC
FEDORA-2021-4c2713e53a has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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