Running speakup on Ubuntu?

[Rob]

Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:


> Looking at the below reply and at the original post, I just realized
> there is no mention of
> modprobe speakup_soft
> anywhere. You'll need to do that as superuser, and that could well be
> the missing step. HTH.
Doesn't the espeakup package do that? I don't use espeak, but I seem to 
recall the startup script checked for the presence of the speakup modules.