process speaker not running

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install via apt package
2. Run emacspeak &


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The expected output: 'a talking computer'
But I see (and three other people who tried it):  process speaker not running

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

I am using the latest version in the apt repository of ubuntu/linux mint.
Details about my operation system:

Linux Mint 14 - 64 Bit

Please provide any additional information below.

I'm wondering if this  bug is known by the emacspeak community. I asked three 
other people running ubuntu if it worked 'out of the box', but they got the 
same error messages. 
I think that an application in the apt repository must be capable of running 
directly, without user interaction to fix broken things (see: 
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/install-guide/troubleshooting.html ), I really 
like the opensource community and I have a lot of respect for people who are 
programming in there free time for others.
I hope this bug can be fixed. Then your product would be perfect!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Koenvdk...@gmail.com on 26 May 2013 at 5:30

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Hmm, still no response. I think it would be handy to fix this

Original comment by Koenvdk...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2013 at 7:00

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When you say 'Ubuntu', then I understand. This thread should explain it and 
give some hope :)

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.emacspeak.general/3263

Jarek

Original comment by jarekc...@poczta.onet.pl on 15 Oct 2013 at 6:31

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 I'm using Ubuntu12.04 and emacspeak 38 

process speaker not running 

after read on FAQ, 

I found the problem

tcl:: command not found

but can't solve it, I've tried packages tcl8.4~tcl8.6 tk8.4~tk8.6 tclx8.4 from 
apt and official site of tcl.

Then I tried two deb files on this site (tcl8.4 tclx8.4)
still not solved.

BTW, I have only "tclsh" command

Thanks

Original comment by pansens...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2013 at 2:52

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I installed tcl8.6 from SF source file,

when make tclx8.4 source file, it stuck

In file included from /home/pan/Downloads/tcl8.6.1/unix/tclUnixPort.h:169:0,
                 from /home/pan/Downloads/tcl8.6.1/generic/tclPort.h:23,
                 from /home/pan/Downloads/tcl8.6.1/generic/tclInt.h:36,
                 from ./generic/tclExtdInt.h:26,
                 from ./unix/tclXunixSock.c:22:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/socket.h:214:12: note: expected ‘socklen_t 
* __restrict__’ but argument is of type ‘int *’
 extern int accept (int __fd, __SOCKADDR_ARG __addr,
            ^
rm -f libtclx8.4.so
gcc -pipe -shared -o libtclx8.4.so tclXbsearch.o tclXchmod.o tclXcmdloop.o 
tclXdebug.o tclXdup.o tclXfcntl.o tclXfilecmds.o tclXfilescan.o tclXflock.o 
tclXfstat.o tclXgeneral.o tclXhandles.o tclXinit.o tclXkeylist.o tclXlib.o 
tclXlist.o tclXmath.o tclXmsgcat.o tclXprocess.o tclXprofile.o tclXselect.o 
tclXsignal.o tclXstring.o tclXsocket.o tclXutil.o tclXoscmds.o tclXlgets.o 
tclXunixCmds.o tclXunixDup.o tclXunixId.o tclXunixOS.o tclXunixSock.o  -lieee 
-lm  -L/home/pan/Downloads/tcl8.6.1/unix -ltclstub8.6 
: libtclx8.4.so
(echo 'package ifneeded Tclx 8.4 \
        [list load [file join $dir libtclx8.4.so] Tclx]'\
    ) > pkgIndex.tcl


maybe because tclx8.4 can't work with tcl8.6, but I can't get rid of tcl8.6 as 
there is no make uninstall command

Original comment by pansens...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2013 at 6:45

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In my experience, the "process speaker not running" issue occurs
when the speech server isn't running or Emacspeak can't find it.

Emacspeak is looking for the "DTK_PROGRAM" and it probably doesn't know which
synthesizer to use for it.

If you are wanting to use espeak, make sure that you have an entry in your
~/.profile that looks like this:

export DTK_PROGRAM
DTK_PROGRAM=espeak

You may need to restart your shell before the new variable will work,
but hopefully your speaker process will be running.