Hi, I also installed grml 1.1rc1 on my hard disk. I had no problem with software speech either from the CD or the hard disk. I suppose there could be a bug but putting swspeak on your kernel command line in your boot loader and running the swspeak command after login should work. Perhaps the final 1.1 upgraded Speakup to a more current version from git in which case you would have to do some tinkering. Have you done this command? echo sftsyn >/proc/speakup/synth_name The 1.1rc1 that I used has a relatively old version from cvs and I honestly can no longer recommend grml. You could try my custom Debian kernel with Speakup built-in but I don't know if it works with software speech on grml or not as I only use hardware here. If the above doesn't help, it's probably a bug.
