Voxin-and-Speakup?

[Chime Hart]

Well, on my laptop, I am running an accessible version of Debian called Devuan. 
Unlike Vinux, so-far I cannot get Voxin with its better I B M speech to run. 
Says "not supported in this distro" Gregory Novak suggested I write to this 
list. A suggestion was made for me to change /etc/debian from 8 to 7 to fool 
Voxin. This made no difference. I  also tried installing Cicero, but had errors. 
Essentially ahead of this coming Monday, I am hoping to get better speech than 
`horrible e speak. Can any1 please suggest anything, without re-installing from 
an image? Thanks so much in advance, o its 64bit
Chime