Hello, sorry for the delay. in responding, but I've had my main computer go to crap, and the backup I've been using is severely buggy. I figured how to get the speakup voices to read faster, to a point, using something like: fast_test 2 40 40 at the end of the english voice files in /usr/share/speakup-data/voices Now I have a couple of other problems. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 for the time being, until I make a switch on a good computer once I get one, to Ubuntu 12.04. I use speakup as my voices for Orca and I can't get them all to speed up. I can get the en-us to speed up, and the scottish, and most of the default british ones as well. But I can't get the one that is called Default en, or just the plain default to speed up in a graphical desktop. I've swapped out the "default" and replaced it with en-us and renamed it default but I don't think that's what I'm looking for. Now the other issue, I was asked why I'm not using espeakup in the console. The reason is this. When I do a sudo apt-get install alsa-utils speakup-tools espeakup I get alsa-utils and speakup-tools are already the newest versions. When it gets to espeakup, I get this: Setting up espeakup (1:0.71-1) ... update-rc.d: warning: espeakup start runlevel arguments (2 3 4 5) do not match LSB Default-Start values (S) update-rc.d: warning: espeakup stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (none) * Starting Speakup/espeak connector espeakup [80G Unable to open the softsynth device: Device or resource busy [74G[[31mfail[39;49m] invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing espeakup (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: espeakup E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Now, for building it. I don't know if what I found is anywhere near a current version. The versions I tried building are these ones - espeakup_0.71.original, and williamh-espeakup-0.71-115-gd95ee07 when I try both, I get this after typing make, or sudo make cc -MMD -Wall -c -o espeakup.o espeakup.c In file included from espeakup.c:27: espeakup.h:27:30: warning: espeak/speak_lib.h: No such file or directory espeakup.c:38: error: expected ?=?, ?,?, ?;?, ?asm? or ?__attribute__? before ?audio_mode? espeakup.c: In function ?main?: espeakup.c:161: warning: implicit declaration of function ?espeak_Terminate? make: *** [espeakup.o] Error 1 I've located sepak_lib.h.gzon my computer, unpacked it, but have no idea where to specifically stuff it to retry.. espeak/ is a pretty vague directory, and there a re a few that begin with that, or have that in it's path... Any help would be more than greatly appreciated, as the console speed I can achieve by hitting speakup+6 using speech-dispatcher is way to slow. Am I missing somethign obvious, or what? Thanks for any help. Jason
