There is a distro that aims to do this, https://talkingarch.tk/ On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 9:56 AM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I commented some lines out in /etc/pulse/client.conf and > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Next thing to try is install speech-dispatcher > and festival and voices for festival and see if I can get spd-say talking. > If so, that will mean the edits on those pulse files were adequate and > then gnome and orca theoretically will install and work correctly using > alsa. > I read about a nopulse package on the arch bbs site in messages but > couldn't find that on aur so decided to do some edits on the pulse > configuration files. > If I ever get this working, I'll probably get myself an arch account and > write something for the wiki so others won't have to guess the way I have > if they want to install gnome on archlinux and have orca talking. > > > > -- >