speakup won't talk

[Daniel Dalton]

On 24/11/2007 12:16 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran apt-get install gcj
> and in another terminal I had hpodder running.
> I came back to my system to see them both done, however, I heard no 
> speech. I only had braille.

After replacing the conf files I had for speechd-up with a default set I 
got from someone on irc it works now.
I have speech like before.
I am just not sure why it would have stopped talking when installing 
something?