[gentoo-accessibility] No software speech in the last ISO

[Cleverson Casarin Uliana]

Dear,

I just burned the most current iso for my architecture, called 
install-amd64-minimal-20101007.iso. When booting, once I heard the beep, 
i issued:
gentoo speakup.synth=soft <ENTER>
but got no speech.

Once in the root prompt, I entered alsamixer, and with a sighted 
assistance I verified that most channels were muted. I issued m and 
right arrow til I unmuted them all, but still no speech.

I issued "espeak -vpt test" and ESpeak has talked aloud as expected, but 
the speakup commands didn't work.

Do you have suggestions of commands I could type to try getting speech? 
I already tried "modprobe speakup_soft" with no results.

Many thanks.
Cleverson