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2.2 Starting Speech and Braille Output

After installation of the *.el files and restarting Emacs, you can set up speechd-speak using the M-x speechd-speak command. If you want to happen it automatically each time Emacs is started, put the following line to your ~/.emacs after the autoload line:

(speechd-speak)
M-x speechd-speak

Set up Emacs for alternative output and start speaking or communicating with the Braille display.

Please don’t forget Speech Dispatcher must be running in order to get any speech output and BRLTTY must be running in order to get Braille output!

After the initial setup, the command can be used again to restart the speech or Braille output when needed. Especially, you must run it again if Speech Dispatcher or BRLTTY gets restarted.

After the first invocation, the command is available under the C-e C-s key.

Once the setup is done, enabling and disabling the alternative output is controlled by the speechd-speak and global-speechd-speak minor modes. Usually the mode commands are not used directly, you use the speechd-speak-toggle-speaking command (see Control Commands), but if you need them, they are available.

M-x speechd-speak-mode

Enable or disable speaking and Braille output in the current buffer. With no argument, this command toggles the mode. Non-null prefix argument turns on the mode. Null prefix argument turns off the mode.

M-x global-speechd-speak-mode

Enable or disable alternative output globally. With no argument, this command toggles the mode. With prefix argument, turn alternative output on if and only if the argument is positive.


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