Comment 31 for bug 354522

I'm a newbie to Ubuntu and I'm no programmer, at least not at the level I'm seeing here. But I just set up an Ubuntu computer and have tried to do the same things I do in Windows XP for recreation, one of which is to read a lot. And I get tired of reading. So I get Says Me to do it for me. I tried to get eSpeak and Festival to work all day today. I see it's a current concern. I can't get either one to say a word. espeak makes clipped grunts (as does Orca) and Festival says nothing. I tried edgar-rft's compile method of original source code and it just gave me errors. I used gksudo instead of sudo. I may have to keep using Says Me in Windows. Too bad. I feel a little safer being on line in Linux.

So, folks, I hope Ubuntu figures this out and lets me download an update for it that works, because it's hard to read after a hard day of work.