Michael Whapples wrote: > I am thinking about emacs (or emacspeak). It seems more > to my liking than vi, but I have a few questions about it. If I were to > use emacspeak, how is it best to stop conflicts of speakup and emacspeak > wanting to use the same synth (an apollo in my case)? There is also the option of using Emacs with speech-el. Since speechd-el uses Speech Dispatcher, it coexists with speakup (as well as Orca) without a problem. Read more about speechd-el (emacspeak alternative) at http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd-el. Best regards, Tomas.