speakup and modifications for festible

[jack mendez]

okay so here is the deal
thanks to steve for giving me the tip on the kernel revision required for
running the latest from speakup.
in the three part instruction set for festival and speakup it says that
when i do a CVS check of the speakup software i will get a speakup
directory in the /usr/src dir.
i do not
i do however when i extract the speakup-modifications file.
so, how do i apply the patches to speakup when speakup doesn't exist
outside of the kernel?
i don't think there is an installation script for the speakup-modifications.