Hi, First, thank you very much, Samuel! I was hoping for a new snapshot to be released as a Debian package. Is there any chance that the new package will make it to Lenny with the big freeze looming? I only found two small problems and one very nice improvement. The bug with my rc.local not being able to set parameters is fixed! The synthesizer seems to respond slightly quicker to key presses. I think I remember work being done either with threading or with keyboard input. Whatever it is, I can tell the difference. The synth keeps up with my typing speed instead of having a slight lag. I haven't thoroughly tested everything, but I tried Alt+left arrow and it didn't lock up. I haven't checked if the speech stopping after about 4 KB of text has been fixed yet. Over all, I'm impressed. The two small problems are as follows: First, I followed Samuel's instructions for building modules. I did the following commands: m-a prepare tar -jxf speakup*.tar.bz2 cd modules/speakup (I was already in /usr/src) make make modules_install The problems are that it isn't obvious that the Speakup source is installed under /usr/src/modules/speakup. I tried changing to the speakup directory but it didn't exist. I wasn't sure if I needed to untar the source or not. I suppose that the modules/speakup directory structure needs to stay in place because of Debian policy, but why not make a symlink? If that can't be done, please put a note in README.Debian for installing manually since the source in Debian won't always be the latest from git, especially when running Stable. The second problem is the underline in modules_install. Most packages I've compiled from source use a dash instead, such as make modules-install. For that matter, why not support "make install" instead? The second problem is slightly more serious. Apparently the Speakup modules must go in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/speakup. The "make modules_install" command put them in the extra directory but not in extra/speakup. I had to manually copy them there. Until I did, it kept loading the old modules, as /sys/module/speakup/version reported 3.0.2. I noticed all the files in the speakup directory were older than those not, so I figured it was safe to copy them. Now I have two sets of identical Speakup modules, one in the extra/ directory and another in extra/speakup/. This should probably be fixed. Again, other than those small issues, all seems well and I'm impressed by the better performance. I'm intending on trying cdparanoia and CD burning to see if there is better performance. Speech always stopped with cdparanoia because of the repeating progress bar, so that should be a good test. To Michael and others experiencing problems, I recommend installing the new package from Samuel's previous post here.
