no speech in the console but speech in the mate desktop under Trixie

Hi, I am not sure what update caused this issue to happen but now if I 
boot into a console I get no speech from espeakup.  If I try espeakup or 
any console based audio program.  I am able to boot into the mate 
desktop by starting the lightdm service and orca runs just fine but at a 
very low volume.  Once I am in the mate desktop I go to a terminal and 
run alsamixer and set it back to %100 and then run as root alsactl store 
to save the settings and again I have to do this over and over.  If I 
ssh into my linux system and run alsamixer when the mate desktop is not 
active and run alsamixer as root I get the message that the mixer device 
is down.  When I also try to access the speakup console with control and 
alt and f1 in the mate desktop I also get no speech.  This is why I 
usually have the mate desktop disabled as i have never managed to get 
both espeakup and orca working when I would like to do this.  Other then 
a complete reinstallation what can I do to fix this issue?  Nick Gawronski