Re: [orca-list] OT: emacspeak versus speechd-el, which is right for me?

[Will Estes <westes575 gmail com>]

We just went through this.

speechd-el. You may want to check out from git, especially being on arch. There are some bugs fixed lately 
that can be confusing when you first start up.

When I looked at emacspeak addons, they've got all his cruft on top of them, so it'd be hard to rip them out 
of the emacspeak package. But why not have a look and see how portable they are?

That being said, the emacs wiki has a lot of helpful information and there may well be modes to do what you 
want.

On Wednesday, 28 October 2015,  5:56 pm -0500, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:

> hi all
> As the subject says, this is off topic, having little to do with orca
> other than a lot of blind users subscribe hear. I'm considering using
> either emacspeak or speechd-el. I really want to explore all the
> wonderful things emacs is capable of. In particular, I'd like to mud in
> it using tux's tintin pack. I want to do this because emacs is likely to
> read out the new output automatically, thus bypassing that extremely
> annoying and hard to track down terminal bug that orca persistently runs
> into. Which would do this better, speechd-el or emacspeak? I'll be
> honest. I'ave had very little luck getting emacspeak working. When I
> launch it in a gui session, it starts but doesn't speak. When I launch
> it in a command line console I get an error that "process speaker" is
> not running. During the build process on arch the espeak server is
> built, yet no speech is heard. I'm extremely new to emacs so any getting
> started tutorials would be nice. If I go with speechd-el, can I get some
> of the emacspeak specific addons via melpa? Secifically the bookshare
> addon. If not, how can I enable emacs to read daisy books?
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
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Will Estes
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