Hi timothy. You probably need to load kernel modules. you can type modprobe speakup_soft in order to load speakup. then for software speech, you'll need to run espeakup. You will need to do all of the above as root. Of course you will need to be sure your soundcard is not muted. Which synthesizer are you wanting to use? 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