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

Hi, Well whatever the issue was it is now gone and things work as they 
should accept that now I am able to bring up the mate desktop or 
espeakup but not both.  If I am at the mate login screen and press 
control and alt and f1 I do get the text console login prompt but once I 
login to mate and am in a web browser if I try to switch back to the 
console I am unable to get speech working in there so have to stick with 
the mate desktop so my question is what exactly is causing the issue 
with no speech in the console when others have not had this issue?  Nick 
Gawronski

On 7/9/2025 12:46 PM, jude dashiell wrote:
> There are a couple other options.
> Fenrir or tdsr.
> Tdsr needs pyte speech-dispatcher and python3-speechd then
> Git clone https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr
> After that cd tdsr then ./tdsr enter to see if it comes up talking. Speak up wouldn’t work on a Chromebook I had so I used tdsr to get around chrome box since tdsr performs way better in Linux on Chromebook than chrome box.
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Nick Gawronski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>