Adjusting Speech Rate emacspeak 36.0

[David J Ring Jr <n1ea@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wonderful news!

I just installed emacspeak from the Ubuntu repositories, and it came up 
playing music and speaking.  No additional work at all was required.
I then upgraded to emacspeak 36.0 and the only thing I had to do was go to 
the speech servers folder and pick the correct linux-espeak folder, go 
inside and type make.  I also typed sudo make install just to be sure!
I don't know how to confirm that I'm using the latest emacspeak as the 
command emacspeak -v doesn't give me a version number, but I'm still 
happy.
One thing that I cannot do (yet) is change the speech rate for espeak.

I tried C-e d 1 and C-e d 5 and C-d r 9 to see if the speech rate changed 
for espeak, but alas, it did not.  Emacspeak correctly announced "Speech 
rate set to level" followed by the correct number, but nothing changed.
Do I have to save this or some how apply this setting somehow?

I installed the elisp library from www.tromey.com/elpa/install by copying 
the appropriate section, putting it in the scratch butter and using the 
evaluate keys which are C-j.
Unfortunately for some reason, when installing lisp libraries which 
require compiling, emacs retrieves the files, configures and then compiles 
them, but freezes.
The good news is that when I kill emacs in another console (using Ubuntu) 
emacspeak ends, and when I start it up, the installed lisp program works 
correctly.  Obviously (so far) the compiling had been done but emacs / 
emacspeak hangs up forever until it is killed, but the lisp program so far 
has always worked.
The fact that emacspeak works when being downloaded by Ubuntu is a great 
thing for those of us who are trying to progress by using this excellent 
program.  Congratulations to all who had a part in this great event.
Would someone give me a URL or tell me how to adjust the speech rate when 
using espeak with emacspeak?

If the problem is that I have to save the settings or apply the settings, 
would someone be so kind to tell me how to do this?

On a hunch, I just went to the configuration settings.  I checked to see 
if the warning about not being able to save the settings was there because 
I hadn't eliminated the -q in the /usr/bin/emacspeak file. It wasn't, so I 
can save.
I changed one setting, bad news.  emacspeak froze!

I guess there is a log file somewhere.  :-)

Thanks guys and gals!

David Ring
Green Harbor, MA USA

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