The only item not installed yet is pipewire. Did you write a espeak-ng.service file to bring up espeak-ng on boot up? I haven't done that yet and have to manually start it after login. On Sun, 18 Jul 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello there, > > It works for me here. > Did you install speech-dispatcher, alsa-utils and alsa-plugins? Did you > install pulseaudio and all related stuff as well? > I am using pipewire here, but it works without a hitch anyways. > If you're trying to get a screen reader running on the graphical user > interface, make sure to install orca as well. > Best regards. > Francisco. > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:29 PM Linux for blind general discussion < > blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I got espeak-ng partly working but not completely. > > When I key a line in and hit enter, espeak-ng speaks what I keyed in. > > That is all espeak-ng does. So far as I can tell no espeak-ng.service > > file exists to enable and start espeak-ng when the system boots either. > > Finally, if during an archlinux installation espeak-ng is installed rather > > than espeak it's possible it's not pulling dependencies espeak-ng needs to > > speak. > > It would be nice if espeak-ng would speak what the computer puts up on the > > screen after I type a command but this isn't yet happening over here. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list