a quick question

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hello list,
I've finally got everything up and running again, and have been doing some playing around.
I'd like to get software speech going, so I can continue my origenal idea of compiling a kernel.
I started reading docks, and got as far as speech-dispatcher
I've installed it, and spd-say "Hello" just hangs. as well as using hello without the quotes.
I've rebooted the service via init.d ./speech-dispatcher restart, and also changed the synths from flite to festival, and back again to make sure that it wasn't just the synth.
Festival works perfect--I'm just having trouble communicating with the synth via spd-say.
Any ideas why its hanging?
The docs on getting software speech working with speakup was rather vague.
I've also got an issue with ssh, that I thought may be able to be fixed here.
When I'm compiling, reading nampages, etc I see a lot of euros a-circumflex marks all over.
Is there something wrong with my terminal? Not sure why it's showing that.
Thanks for the help in advance,
Thanks,
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