I would agree. As far as I know for self voicing emacs there's either emacspeak which requires either a hardware synth or viavoice which is commercial, or speechd-el which can use speech-dispatcher, so speechd-el and speech-dispatcher seems to be the best free solution for software self voicing of emacs. In most other cases (eg. you mention brltty) there are alternatives (eg. brltty I thought can use espeak directly). I would like to accept speech-dispatcher as the obvious choice for speech output but unfortunately its problem with crashing from time to time (I think it was you Hermann who said it has something to do with its ALSA support) makes me personally want to back away from it. Although I have my personal feelings on speech-dispatcher I accept there are reasons to use it so would say it should stay if possible.

Michael Whapples On 07/06/09 21:41, Hermann wrote:

Just one brief remark regarding Speech-dispatcher: It should stay on GRML, because it is used as speech output by other a11y apps, above all Brltty. It is also supported by other screen readers like Suse-Blinux. But besides that, Espeakup is good stuff. Hermann (No need for quoting in this case, I think).