Re: spd-say and orca are silent

Well I did a purge as suggested and reinstalled orca, I had also purge 
removed speech-dispatcher and python3-speechd.
After reinstalling orca, it seems that orca installed speech-dispatcher and 
python3-speechd.
I had a bit of hope when I rebooted into the Mate desktop, I heard orca say 
screenreader on.
But then it went silent again.
Almost as if there is some process in the Mate desktop blocking orca.
I still have audio, in an edit window, or terminal, I get the drip sound 
when I can no longer backspace.
Again, thanks for any suggestions.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john doe" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2025 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: spd-say and orca are silent


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.