trouble with viavoice and speech-dispatcher

[Joshua Lambert]

I've installed viavoice sdk, correctly installed and configured 
speech-dispatcher, and get only silence when running the speech tests. 
According to the output of the tests, it's supposed to be speaking, but 
nothing through the sound card.  I've tried using both alsa and oss 
configurations.  Similar problem with gnome-speech-0.3.10.  It compiles 
okay, and test-speech allows me to select the viavoice driver, but then 
complains it can't initialize the server.  Any ideas?
Cheers,
Josh