dectalk and gnopernicus?

[seth creature]

Hi all:
I have a couple of questions about DECtalk software and gnopernicus.  The 
first, is that while in X I do the alt-f2 then type gnopernicus, and after 
getting no responce that I can detect, I jumped back to a console and 
checked to see of in fact gnopernicus is even running, and acording to ps 
x it is.  I have installed the dectalk software, but maybe not in the 
correct directory, one was never specified as far as I know.  I got the 
say command to work with both quoted text and a text file in the console, 
and wonder what I might need also to do to get this critter to run with 
gnopernicus.  Also Festival seems to be happy in a text console according 
to the instructions for testing,  but I can't get that to work with 
gnopernicus either.  I am still using slackware 10.1.  Any help would be 
appreciated, probably best off list, as I am sure that everyone here is 
tired of hearing about gnopernicus... Thanks much.
Cheereo!