Talking Debian Install Not Talking

[michael malver]

I have to aggree wtih toby.  If I had decided to install debian with no
experience I never would have figured it out.  THere is no documentation to
speak of on how to make speakup work wtih debian.  The redhat docs are
fantastic and I thank god I chose that one first.  Unfortunately, when I
started asking people for help resolving system issues once I got redhat
installed, none of the commands they told me to issue worked wtih redhat, so
I decided to switch.