fedora and speakup

[Alonzo]

Hello,
I've installed fedora 18 on one of my computers.
PUlse audio seems to be attached to gnome. I read in one of my mail messages to perhaps
touch /use/bin/pulseaudio
However, that breaks the system. I have to reinstall pulse audio to get sound. Is there a file i need to put in !/ or perhaps edit something in /etc/ to disable pulse audio allowing me to use espeakup in the console? right now as it stands if i start espeakup audio doesn't work. I built espeakup from the git repo since rpm fusion did not have a tmp package to install.
What do I need to do  to make this work?

Alonzo