On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:00:45AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > The Debian installer includes speakup, which allows to work /ith a > > hardware speech synthetiser. They ever get speakUp working with pulse audio in unstable yet? I know when I tried unstable, it was only two upgrades before all speech output became FUBAR, and I had to to a scratch install of Squeeze to get any speech back. Anyway, I'm gonna ditch Debian and give Ubuntu a try, at least on the laptop. Is anyone out there successfully using the latest Ubuntu release out there on the command line? Michael