more hardware speech and a question

[Keith Barrett]

Further to my previous on this subject, I have a couple of observations 
and a question.

In case any of this is useful, I downloaded the latest testing i386 and 
am64 debian testing.

As suggested, I could not get hardware speech on either of them.  I got 
software speech on the am64 but failed to with the i386 but I did not 
spend much time trying to figure out why.

I also have a system which started out as squeeze and is now running 
testing and hardware speech continues to work.

So, I have a 64 bytt machine and it seems for the moment, hardware 
speech is not going to work so I am wondering if/how I can get software 
speech working in the cli with speakup and with orca in the gui?

Also, I am hoping that software speech will be more reliable than it 
seems to be in the gui, I cannot count the number of times when I have 
depended on speakup and my old apollo after software speech in the gui 
has stopped working.

Thanks for any pointers.

regards

keith