Install Emacspeak on OpenMoko, 29 Jan 2008
Contact: Gilles Casse, gcasse at oralux.org


1. installation on the Neo

1.1 Prerequisite
1.2. install
1.3. run emacspeak
1.4. Enjoy

2. emacspeak in OE



This directory includes the softwares (ipk packages, bitbake recipes) necessary for installing emacspeak on the Neo1973. 

emacspeak is the audio desktop, the talking emacs developped by TV Raman:
http://emacspeak.sf.net

Emacspeak is firsly helpful to visually impaired persons for interacting in a consistent way with their computer.

This application could also be appreciated by sighted users for editing long texts, "eyes-free" using their mobile, a keyboard and an earphone.


Warning:
This integration is a little bit in a preliminary state: speech is sometimes interrupted by glitches, or by unexpected pauses. All this might be addressed by me or others (welcome) persons in the future.



1. installation on the Neo

1.1 Prerequisite
emacs-x11 (> 50MB) from openembedded
eSpeak:  I suggest my customization for the Neo, espeak-pulse from mokotts:
http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/?group_id=86

1.2. install
then download and install these packages:

tclx_8.4-r0_armv4t.ipk
emacspeak_27.0-r0_armv4t.ipk

1.3. run emacspeak

export EMACSPEAK_DIR=/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak
#export DISPLAY=:0.0
#export LANG=fr_FR@utf8
emacspeak -e

after a while you will hear "espeak", and finally "... and all my circuits are operationnal".

1.4. Enjoy
Well learn a little bit of emacs and emacspeak before ;-)

2. emacspeak in OE

Thanks to review our packages for a possible inclusion in OE.
Particularly, the tcltk/README which exposed an issue for multiplatform configuration.

* tcltk.patch : patch for the current tcltk openembedded package.
  Basically, tcl-dev is enhanced, and tclx8.4 has been added.

* emacspeak: new package