Kerry, I followed your instructions and was able to create all the speakup modules in vibuntu 1.2 which I installed on an unused partition from a memory stick. My audapter hardware synth worked as expected but softsynth had problems. I am using gnome speech with espeak and the original pulseaudio from vibuntu 1.2. When it does work, it chops a little of each letter or the first word on a line. Sometimes I get messages about not able to open /dev/dsp. I don't know enough about alsa or pulseaudio to fix this. Also the espeakup daemon in /usr/bin is espeakup without the d like it used to be. A few days ago I did install the speakup-source package and tried the module-assistant which never compiled correctly.
