[Emacspeak] Setting global prefs in init file

[Andrew Leland <aleland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,
I’m new to elisp and have no programming experience, so please forgive me if I’m missing something brutally obvious! 

I’m trying to add elisp to my init file that sets my emacspeak/dtk preferences globally. Here’s what I’ve got:

;; trying to get org-agenda not to say ┄ a zillion times
  (setq dtk-add-cleanup-pattern "┄”)
  (setq emacspeak-use-icons nil)
  (setq emacspeak-character-echo nil)
  (setq dtk-caps nil)
  (setq dtk-punctuation-mode 'some)

But as you probably recognized right away, this just sets the prefs for the init file itself, not all buffers globally. Can anyone steer me in the right direction to get this elisp to set these prefs everywhere? Or at least in org? 

Thanks,
Andrew