espeakup no longer works in trixie after lots of package updates but orca does

Hi, I have trixie installed and noticed that after lots of updates 
espeakup no longer speaks when the system reboots to the console but I 
am able to use orca just fine.  I have no idea what packages that were 
upgraded caused the issue as there were espeak-ng and speech-dispatcher 
updates but espeakup was not updated and the systemctl status command 
ran fine with no issues and it has the espeakup process running.  Here 
is the output from that command.

● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
      Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; enabled; 
preset: enabled)
      Active: active (running) since Fri 2025-07-04 08:36:41 CDT; 3min 
24s ago
  Invocation: 33d04d2a117b43f3a1f47dbde4fe4e47
        Docs: man:espeakup(8)
     Process: 973 ExecStartPre=modprobe speakup_soft (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
     Process: 974 ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup 
--default-voice=${default_voice} (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Main PID: 1000 (espeakup)
       Tasks: 4 (limit: 9265)
      Memory: 13.2M (peak: 14.5M)
         CPU: 300ms
      CGroup: /system.slice/espeakup.service
              └─1000 /usr/bin/espeakup --default-voice=

Jul 04 08:36:41 dellsysteminspironn7110 systemd[1]: Starting 
espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup...
Jul 04 08:36:41 dellsysteminspironn7110 systemd[1]: Started 
espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup.
Nick Gawronski