Install the version that comes in your version of Debian, there's a good chance that speechd-up version 0.6 is incompatible.
Newest version is not always the best.
David
Well, thank you DJ, in following your link, I may have run in to helpful
packages which I will explore. Meanwhile you mention a 0.5 version of
speechd-up, but I think I saw a 0.6 at their freeb site, but I got errors
when working with it. Thanks
Chimesoft