* Introduction

This module implements  the Emacspeak speech server for software
Dectalk.

* Getting Software Dectalk:

1. git clone  [[https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk][Dectalk Sources]]
2. git checkout develop # switch branch
3. cd src
4. autoreconf -f -i
5. ./configure && make

* Install Software Dectalk 

1. sudo make install
2. Symlink /opt/dectalk/include and /opt/dectalk/libs into their
  respective /usr/local directories.
3. sudo ldconfig to update the library index.
4. Edit /opt/dectalk/DECtalk.conf to use absolute pathnames for the
   dic entries ---  copy over the DECtalk.conf file from this
   directory to /opt/dectalk/

* Build The Emacspeak Side

#+begin_src 
cd servers/software-dectalk && make
#+end_src


* Test, Then Use Server

1. In a shell, run ./servers/dtk-soft from the emacspeak directory.
2. If it works, then ask Emacspeak to use it as you would with any
   other speech server.
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