configuring and updating speakup

[Sean M McMahon]

On my system, speakup shows up as a locally created package under aptitude 
and the cvs version is a cvs version from December of last year.  I'd like 
to upgrade speakup and reconfigure it a little.  Is there a deb of a newer 
version of speakup or do I have to download a new kernel and checkout a 
new version of speakup through cvs.  I'd like to do a little reconfiguring 
because the synth name that comes up is axent-sa eventhough my synth is a 
braille'nspeak, which is working.  I seem to recall someone talking about 
a utility called speakupconf?  Where can I get that and will that solve my 
problem?
Sean