orca and speech-dispatcher

[Guy Schlosser]

Hey all, I am a newby to this list and have a couple questions for 
anyone who can help.  I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on Tuesday, and so far, 
I love it.  I'm trying to get Orca running with speech-dispatcher 
though, so that I can hear sounds, and play music files.  I tried 
choosing speech-dispatcher from the list of synthesizers, and my 
volume dropped considerably.  Secondly, I am still unable to hear 
system sounds, or play music.  Is there an alternative method of 
getting orca to work with SD?  I tried downloading the experimental 
backend, and am unable to find the settings.py file that its 
documentation refers to.  Is the experimental backend what I need to 
install to get this to work?  Secondly, where do I put the .py file 
and modify the settings file.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


Guy
P.S.  Do I need to change any permissions on the .py file that I 
download, since I'm gonna copy that into its location from a jump 
drive or something?