Entry point for Emacspeak. The simplest and most basic way to start emacspeak is: emacs -q -l <emacspeak-dir>/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el The above starts a vanilla Emacs with just Emacspeak loaded. Once the above has been verified to work, You can add (load-library "emacspeak-setup") To your .emacs file. See tvr/emacs-startup.el in the Emacspeak Git repository for my setup.