Emacspeak is not a speech synthesizer. It is an audio desktop that runs under Emacs, written in Lisp. The synthesizer driver portion is written in Tcl. What you can do to get software speech is to obtain Ibm viavoice Outloud. However, for this to work, you will need to have working sound drivers. Microsoft dialogue This company has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown. If this problem persists, delete Winblows and install Linux. Close button On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Peter Konka wrote: > Hi listers, > > Does anyone know how Emacspeak works for Linux? I guess it is a speech > synthesizer that works through the computers sound card. Does any one know > how to install this or if it actually works as a linux screen reader? I > would like to use speech under linux but I don't have an external speech > synthesizer. > > Please let me know > > Peter Konka > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >