It doesn't look like apt-build works for espeak. I was able to get it to download and build a deb file for espeak but if I edited the Makefile to have it use pulse audio, the compile failed. I could go into the source directory and compile espeak myself so I know I didn't make any mistakes editing the Makefile. Apparently apt-build does something other than simply changing to the espeak source directory and running make. But I have no idea what that might be. It just doesn't work. On 11/01/2013 10:35 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 09:17:03PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: >> 1. I couldn't figure out how to get the debian espeakup package to >> work with my custom compiled version of speakup. You can't install >> espeakup w/o the espeak package. > Why not use apt-build to build your custom espeak as a debian package? > You should then be able to install your custom espeak package, and > install espeakup. > > Greg > >