2.1 Installation
speechd-el installation consists of the following steps:
- If you use Emacs older than 23.2 then install the ‘eieio’ Elisp
library, available from http://cedet.sourceforge.net/eieio.shtml
or perhaps your favorite operating system distribution.
- Copy the speechd-el *.el files contained in the distribution
package somewhere to your Emacs load path.
- If you like, byte compile the *.el files. Byte compilation is
recommended, because it speeds up speechd-el significantly. You can
byte compile the *.el files using the command
Then install the compiled files to an Emacs load path location as
well.
- Install the speechd-log-extractor somewhere to your shell PATH,
e.g. /usr/local/bin/. Installing this script is optional, it
is used only for bug reporting.
- Add the following line to your ~/.emacs:
(autoload 'speechd-speak "speechd-speak" nil t)
To receive speech output, Speech Dispatcher must be installed and
running. Speech Dispatcher version 0.5 or higher is recommended.
To receive Braille output, BRLTTY must be installed and running.
BRLTTY version 3.7 or higher is required.