Assuming that you have all the items listed in Section 4, Requirements, you are ready to install
Emacspeak. The following steps provide the instructions to do so.
Go to the Emacspeak site at http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net
and, from the Support and Documentation
section, select an Emacspeak file to
download. If you select the binary file,
emacspeak.tar.gz, you
will need to configure and make Emacspeak.
If you have some experience with Linux, or if
you're using a distribution that does not
support RPMs, you should download this option.
If your distro supports RPMs, you can download the
ready-to-install version of Emacspeak
(emacspeak-14.0-1.noarch.rpm).
Download the file and place it in
your home directory.
Type su root and provide
the root
password if you are not already logged onto your
machine as root. You'll need root
permissions to install Emacspeak.
If you downloaded the rpm version of
Emacspeak, unpack it using the command
rpm -i
emacspeak-14.0-1.noarch.rpm. If you
downloaded the binary version, unzip and untar
the file, then follow the installation
directions in the README file in the resulting
emacspeak-14.0 directory.
Once you have installed the rpm, you'll see a
message saying that Emacspeak installed
successfully, as well as some
additional instructions.
If you are using Emacspeak v.14 or earlier and
also using ViaVoice TTS as your
synthesizer, change directories to the
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/linux-outloud
directory and type the command
make. This command compiles the
ViaVoice TTS server. If you are not using
ViaVoice, or if you have Emacspeak v.15 or
later, you do not need to complete this step.
Using the cd command, change directories to the
/etc directory and open
your profile file with
your favorite text editor
(you must be root to edit the
profile). Scroll to the
bottom of the file, then add the following two lines:
export DTK_PROGRAM
DTK_PROGRAM=name of your speech server
The value of DTK_PROGRAM must be the name of your
speech server. A list of standard
Emacspeak-supported speech synthesizers and the
names of their respective speech servers is below.
ViaVoice TTS
outloud
DecTalk Xpress
dtk-exp
DecTalk MultiVoice
dtk-mv
Several additional synthesizers are supported,
but they require add-on speech servers. Refer
to the documentation for each specific speech
server for more information.
Save your profile file
and close it.
Now, you should have installed and configured everything
required to run Emacspeak. To use Emacspeak, log on to
your system as someone other than root (you should never run
Emacspeak as root), and type
emacspeak at the prompt. Emacspeak should
start talking immediately.