Speech Dispatcher at Startup

[Steve Holmes]

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I think this topic has come up in the past but don't remember if there
was any resolution to it.  It seems that I can't get Speakup to come up
talking with Speech Dispatcher via the normal system startup scripts.  I
use rc.local to spawn my rc.speakup script.  I've actually made this
observation on two different laptops; both of them use Slackware and one
of these machines for sure, show sftsyn as the value in
/proc/speakup/synth_name an yet no speech.  If I run this exact same
script after logging on, all works fine.  How I found the variable to be
sftsyn before speech was to boot the machine, wait til I heard a beep
telling me the login prompt was there, logged in, typed 'cat
/proc/speakup/synth_name, then ran my rc.speakup restart sftsyn, then my
machine talks.  I see no funny stuff in any logs and you would think it
was running all along and just restarted but yet I never get any speech
until I login and restart the thing.

Any ideas what could be going on here?

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