Hi all, Just downloaded the current Gentoo minimal cd (install-x86-minimal-20100126.iso) and tried gentoo speakup.synth=soft I still didn't get any speech, but I found "speaker-test" and "espeak hi" worked perfectly. I also tried this: find / -type f -name "speakup*" | espeak --stdin And the speakup kernel modules weren't in the list (although there was a speakup ebuild and speakupconf). Another thing I tried was espeakup 2> /dev/stdout | espeak --stdin and got "unable to open the softsynth device: no such file or directory." So it seems the speakup tools are there, but speakup itself isn't.
Hope this helps somehow.
