Would Emacs Help?

[Hart Larry]

First I want to say that I know absolutely nothing about emacs, however, since 
it may have been the first Linux screen-reader supporting the Dectalk-pc, I 
wonder if having emacs load dectalk drivers could enable me to finally try 
YASR?  My only other idea would be useing doseum to load my DOS dectalk 
drivers?  The latest dectalk drivers I have are dectalk_pc0.95.tgz and 
0.96.tgz.
There is even a chance I may completely get rid of windows, so I would very 
much like to improve my speech experience here in linux.
Thanks so much in advance for helpful info
Hart