Speech has died - How do I discover the cause and fix?

[gena-j ntlworld com]

Hi
In short I:
Installed X and Gnome 2 from Debian about 26 July 2003 and Festival came
up talking straight away.

I purchased Dectalk and installed it.

I checked out from cvs July 31 Gnome Speech and installed it over the
previous version.  The test program discovered and is able to play both
synthesisers as desired.

I loaded Gnome and Festival came up talking as expected.  However, I
wanted to use the Dectalk driver.  So I went to the Absolute settings
and selected Dectalk and voice Paul.  I didn't know if I needed to use
the Force button the first time round but as my changes were not
successful, I navigated the dialogs and used the Force button and
haven't had speech since.  This the same for all users.

Where do I go from here?

Thanks.

Gena

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