As stupid a question as this may sound, did you install orca, speech-dispatcher and espeak explicitly? If you just installed orca, you may not have everything. Do you have a talking system with espeakup or fenrir? I hope you installed pulseaudio? Cheers, Dave H. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 11, 2021, at 10:57 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I also modified the .xinitrc file at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, since that's the only one which is available, and I inserted the following lines at the end of the file, after installing the system: > > > export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge > export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 > export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list