soft synth not working at all

[John covici]

Hi.  I am using a git pull of speakup from April 13 and kernel
2.6.24-gentoo-r5 and the software speech is not working at all.  I
have speakout builtin and soft as a module, but either echoing soft to
/sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth or modprobing the module
speakup_soft loads the module, but mothing else happens.  Also,
speechd-up says its trying to open the device in the old way and it
then says it can't find /dev/softsynth .

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks.

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