Thanks for the tip. (oops, I guess there was an install script there)... )

Reinstalling it got me a little farther.

Now, at the shell, I can execute:

/bin/sh -c "/usr/local/bin/ttsd &"

Then I can type:

/bin/tts "Hello World"

and that works.

However, when the player is booting up, here is what it looks like (sleep and flite repeating forever):

Hijack: intercepting config.ini

': not a valid identifieropts: `Option
Saved AC volume was 78
Volume=78
hijack_exec("/drive0/var/ttsclock -t-8"), rc=0 (okay)
hijack_exec("/bin/sh -c "/usr/local/bin/ttsd &""), rc=0 (okay)
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
hijack_exec("/drive0/roadmap/roadmapgpsapp"), rc=0 (okay)
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
** roadmap_file.c, line 70: cannot open file //.roadmap/trips/default
Roadmap initialized
GPS app started
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: sleep: command not found
/usr/local/bin/ttsd: flite: command not found