Hi Saqib, You cannot have both emacspeak and speakup running siimultaneously, unless you have two synthesizers, each assigned to one of the programs. ie. they can work simultaneously, but they cannot share a synth resource. --terry You wrote: -=> hi all, -=> in order to get a newbie up and running, i installed debian linux using speakup 0.10a. we now have a talking system using speakup. i then did -=> apt-get install emacspeak-ss -=> this went to the cd and installed emacspeak-ss, emacspeak, emacs, tcl, tclx, bla bla bla and all the things it needed. i then entered ins+enter on the keypad and typed emacspeak. emacs beeped at me. so i turned speakup back on to review the screen and anything i did, even c-x c-c resulted in "process speaker not running". in the past i have run just speakup, and currently i am running just emacspeak. i don't understand how to get both working at once. -=> thanks for any help. -=> saqib -=> -=> Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (905)735-6127 E-mail: terry at wasagacottage.com Web: www.wasagacottage.com
