<<process speaker not running>> I get this one without being in an X-Windows environment and put it down to lack of configuration either with a suitable speech engine part or similar. <<sounds like the emacspeak list is an unforgiving place for newbies.>> I found that too, which is why I still don't use Emacspeak yet. I downloaded but didn't get to try the Oralux distro yet either which is meant to boot and work right out of the box so to speak. Has anyone made that work like that? Is there any mileage in trying to get Emacspeak to run with an existing Apollo that is already being driven by Speakup? Is it worth using plain old Emacs and skip the speak bit? We're meant to be Speakup users here, so who uses Emacspeak or Emacs and how successfully? GA!