Re: spd-say and orca are silent

john doe <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:11:23 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/18/25 09:00, K0LNY ?? wrote:
> Hello folks,
> So I have Debian Bookworm and Orca is silent.
> If I do
> spd-say test
> I hear nothing.
> But if I do
> sudo spd-say test
> I hear espeak-ng speak.
> I may have made the mistake of running spd-conf with sudo and selecting system after I had trouble with no sudo and user configuration.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> I did an apt reinstall of speech-dispatcher and a reinstall of orca, but that did not fix the problem.

try to "purge" and re"install" `apt-get --autoremove purge <PKG>` and 
see if it helps.

-- 
John Doe