After all this fuss (this was prompted by an old pending merge review)
I have cleaned up the emacspeak and made it default to use espeak
and it actually works now out of the box for the first time!!
(though a little buggy sometimes perhaps). It should be arriving
in updates-testing soon.
Anyway I am still interested to hear from or about people who use
emacspeak on Fedora. Now would be a good time to give it a spin
for fun too.
Jens