for those who want console speech in manjaro based distros

I've been kicking tail trying to get console speech to work in manjaro based distros, such as sonar, and f123 visual.  I find I've been successful, but
you have to jump through a couple hoops to do it.
First, update your system as normal with sudo pacman -Syu, or however you choose to do that.
Next, install downgrade.
yaourt -S downgrade
Once that's installed, this is where things could get a little sticky.
sudo downgrade espeak
That's right, the newer versions of espeak won't allow console speech to work.  Once you type sudo downgrade espeak, you're presented with about 5
options.  I've had the best luck with option 3.
Pick that, and go through the install process.  Until the espeak issue has been fixed, I went ahead and added espeak to the ignore package list, so I
don't hafta keep downgrading after I've done a system update.
that's the very short version of what's been one heck of a process for me.
Note: once you downgrade espeak, the language may change on you...a simple reboot will fix the problem, which you'll need to do anyway.
That's it, folks.  Have a good one.

Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
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