fedora 9 and software speech

[Don Raikes]

Hello,
I installed the speakup fedora 9 about a month ago and have never been
able to get speakup to work.
I have ttsynth installed and working on the system.
In an effort to fix the issues, I compiled fedora-2.6.25.11-95.spk and
installed it this week.

Still no speech.
I just installed speech-dispatcher 0.6.6 from the yum repository.
Now what do I have to do to get this box talking?