Help Getting Gnome-speech to run Fonix Dectalk 4.6 and Fedora 6

[Beth Hatch <bhatch200 comcast net>]

Hi everyone,

I'm attempting to compile the Fonix Dectalk 4.6 into the Gnome speech 
0.4.9 and when I do this, all appears to go well.  However, whenever I 
try to choose the Dectalk from Orca version 2.17.91 or by testing it 
with the test-speech command for Gnome speech, there's no output from 
Dectalk.  To be more precise, Orca doesn't even show Dectalk as a choice 
in its preferences/speech combo box, and test-speech gives me this 
strange error message about "an unknown failure has occurred, unable to 
start child process."  I've installed the Dectalk driver three times 
now, and compiled Gnome-speech each time thereafter.  Gnome-speech 
appears to see the Dectalk because it says it is making the dectalk 
driver, and it says yes that the driver is made, just as it does for 
Festival, which works fine with Orca and th test-speech module.

   I followed the Gnome-speech compiler instructions from the Orca Wiki 
and later from the Beyond Linux from Scratch web site.  If anyone has 
any suggestions to help me get this up and running, it would be most 
appreciated.  Please feel free to send private email if you wish.

Thanks,

Beth