YASR-And-TTS?

[Hart Larry]

Well, last week I did purchase this IBM TTS, as I do like this eliquence type 
of speech.  While I am running Speakup through a Dec-Talk USB, I wanted to try 
YASR.  While talking with Mike, an author of YASR, we could not get the DecTalk 
to run, however, with alot of fooling around, he got YASR talking through 
speech-dispatcher.  Major problem is that each-and-every line YASR reads, 
includes the word "speak"  Would I have better results running an emacs server 
with YASR-and how would we set that up?
As many of you know, main reasons I wanted to try YASR are that the keyboard 
layout is quite similar to Vocal-Eyes--and Mike is willing to consider an 
exception dictionary.
As far as I know only Jupiter--and maybe emacs speak have any exception 
dictionaries.
Thanks in advance for helpful suggestions
Hart