Ok. I installed speakup-modules-2.6.26-2-686 and espeak. Downloaded espeakup 0.71 from sourcearchive.com. Tried to build espeakup by running make. But got a lot of build errors/warnings. I see it's complaining about some libraries but I have installed espeak using the one found in the debian archive. In file included from espeakup.c:28: espeakup.h:26:30: error: espeak/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory In file included from espeakup.c:28: espeakup.h:64: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???set_frequency??? espeakup.h:66: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???set_pitch??? espeakup.h:68: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???set_punctuation??? espeakup.h:70: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???set_rate??? espeakup.h:72: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???set_voice??? espeakup.h:73: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???set_volume??? espeakup.h:75: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???stop_speech??? espeakup.h:76: error: expected ???=???, ???,???, ???;???, ???asm??? or ???__attribute__??? before ???speak_text??? espeakup.c: In function ???espeakup_sighandler???: espeakup.c:84: warning: implicit declaration of function ???espeak_Terminate??? espeakup.c: In function ???main???: espeakup.c:130: warning: implicit declaration of function ???espeak_Initialize??? espeakup.c:130: error: ???AUDIO_OUTPUT_PLAYBACK??? undeclared (first use in this function) espeakup.c:130: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once espeakup.c:130: error: for each function it appears in.) espeakup.c:134: warning: implicit declaration of function ???set_voice??? espeakup.c:138: warning: implicit declaration of function ???set_frequency??? espeakup.c:139: warning: implicit declaration of function ???set_pitch??? espeakup.c:140: warning: implicit declaration of function ???set_rate??? espeakup.c:141: warning: implicit declaration of function ???set_volume??? espeakup.c:142: warning: implicit declaration of function ???espeak_SetParameter??? espeakup.c:142: error: ???espeakCAPITALS??? undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [espeakup.o] Error 1