At the boot: screen, hit f5 then hit down arrow 3 times then hit enter
twice. After that a preferences screen comes up and gnopernicus speech
will be selected already for you so get to quit and quit out of that
screen then go on from there. That's all in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/
I think I deleted my speech driver when taking my laptop out of sleep mode
when trying to switch off my laptop so I have had to re-install Ubuntu
Dapper because when dad logged in it seemed Gnopernicus was running but I
was getting no speech.
However when dad went through the Install, we must have