Testing my software synthasezer and switching to it.

[jim grimsby]

Hi, well the time has come yep the moment I have been waiting for.  I have
flite and festable installed on my system.  The sound card works I tested it
out by doing this 
Apt-get install saytime saydate aumix 
After setting the volume with aumix by the way is this the best tool to use
for this function? 
I ran saytime and saydate sound came out of the sound card with no problem.

Then I did a search for the speech synthesizer by doing this 
Apt-cache search speech 
I found the packages I wanted by using speakups review commands and the mark
and cut and paste command like this 
Apt-get install then the paste command. 
It installed vestable 
Then I issued the command 
Apt-get install flite 
Flite was installed.  Now I need to test these software synthesizers out and
then switch speakup to one of them.  First question how should I go about
testing them to make sure they work.  Second how do I switch speakup to one
of them and witch one to choose.  Thanks