error starting emacspeak under red hat 9

[John covici]

Well, there are ways to use emacspeak with the same synth as speakup,
but they are unsupported and what I would suggest is that you buy the
$50 dectalk runtime for linux -- that will work with emacspeak and
you can have both at once.

Now I have found personally that speakup gives good feedback and at
least with the cvs version emacspeak is not necessary, but that is a
personal choice and you should play with it and see what you like.

on Wednesday 09/24/2003 Guy Abandon.(text.tools at virgin.net) wrote
 > <<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?

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         John Covici
         covici at ccs.covici.com