So I've been finding, in my dives into using Emacs and Emacspeak more, that Emacspeak actually uses some tools that are quite old and abandonned. TCLX isn't shipped in Arch Linux anymore, and it looks like neither is IWGetID in Fedora. Not all tools age well without maintinence, sadly, especially digital ones. With Tclx, AI was able to work around it by polyfilling the needed functions into TCL scripts. That's the most important part, since the speech engines Emacspeak uses, like ESpeak and Outloud and DecTalk, all rely on TCLX.

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