Re: [Emacspeak] Regression in Swiftmac git: broken audio playback

Hi,

I tried swiftmac today, and although this issue was fixed, I ran into an issue with the makefile, specifically the way it uses sed. I seem to have a different version, probably thanks to brew, and I had to do some magic to make it work. I found this with google and I’m not really familiar with how sed works, so please excuse me if it’s not the right way, it did fix it for me though:

1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Makefile | 2 +-

modified Makefile

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ support-files:

@cp cloud-swiftmac $(SERVERS)/cloud-swiftmac

@cp swiftmac-voices.el $(LISP)/swiftmac-voices.el

@cp log-swiftmac $(SERVERS)/log-swiftmac

- @sed -i '' '/swiftmac/d' $(SERVERS)/.servers

+ @sed -i.bak '/swiftmac/d' $(SERVERS)/.servers && rm $(SERVERS)/.servers.bak

@echo "swiftmac" >> $(SERVERS)/.servers

@echo "log-swiftmac" >> $(SERVERS)/.servers

@echo "cloud-swiftmac" >> $(SERVERS)/.servers

On 4 Nov 2025, at 16:55, Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Arkadiusz--

Thanks for flagging this bug. My configuration was hiding it,

I now have a clean emacs config to test with and believe I fixed these issues, impacted
more than just the two places you flagged.

When you have a moment checkout the new 3.5.0 release.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025, at 8:50 PM, Robert Melton wrote:
What version of MacOS are you on? The new version does need 14+ but I thought that was relatively safe. Will dig into why it might be breaking.

> On Oct 26, 2025, at 10:12, Arkadiusz (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> today I'd like to describe a regression that was introduced in Swiftmac 3.x.
> Problem: Audio playback via AVFoundation is broken. Only certain sounds of Emacspeak play. Tone player is unaffected.
> Solution: change the emacspeak-play-program variable from "nil" to "sox-play". Keep in mind that the file "swiftmac-voices.el" is overiding that variable on startup. My pitch is to remove this definition at all to make behavior inline with other speech servers, allowing the user to customize the behavior according to need.
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