canto-curses package accessibility

Has anyone else used this rss reader or is anyone else using canto-curses?
The ncurses interface in that package and espeak appear not to like each 
other very much.
snownews isn't as able to read rss and atom feeds as canto-curses and 
snownews leaves newsbeuter eating its dust.
If I cannot get canto-curses working any better I have an option of moving 
all of my feeds into emacs newsticker but wanted to ask about this here 
first before giving up on canto-curses.



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