If you wish to use the same synth for both, it will have to be one or You can use the same synthesizer for both, but not simultaniously. If you wish to run emacspeak, boot a kernel without speakup or its default keymap. -Dave Geetha Shamanna writes: > I plan to use the same internal synthesizer for both Speakup and Emacspeak > (DoubleTalk PC internal). Is that likely to cause problems?