Hi. I'm not much of an emacs user, but emacspeak will give you a better
presentation of some documents than speakup and emacs will. For
example, emacspeak with the DECtalk software uses different voice for
different print type while reading some documents. Reading the fame
file with just emacs and speakup won't.
Kenny
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 12:34:49PM -0400, Danny Crone wrote:
> If Emacs can be used with speakup, what would be the advantage of using
> Emaccspeak?
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> > Hi. If you're trying to get emacspeak to use the same synth as speakup,
> > you will need to boot using a kernel without speakup for emacspeak to use it.
> > The print screen key doesn't unload speakup, it just stops it from doing
> > anything on the current console. Since speakup got the synth when the
> > system booted, no other screen reader can use it. Speakup does have a
> > way to let other programs talk to the synth, but the other programs will
> > have to be written to use it.
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:05:18PM +0100, L?onie Watson wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I'm still suffering the conflict between Speakup and Emacspeak on my
> > > Debian (testing) distro.
> > >
> > > I've tried using the printscr key to unload Speakup before entering
> > > Emacspeak, but Speakup doesn't unload.
> > >
> > > I'm using a Dectalk Express, should this make any difference and at this
> > > time, really don't know enough to figure out much for myself.
> > >
> > > Apologies to those on the Emacspeak list, where I am also pursuing this
> > > enquiry, for the dual post.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tink
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