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 Sent from F123 Visual using alpine 2.20.13 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list