There is not yet a systemd unit for espeakup by default. I just sent one to the Arch devs that has been pushed to the community-testing repo. It should be live shortly. For now, I'll attach my copy, which works, and was only edited slightly for inclusion into the Arch package. Save the attached file as /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/espeakup.service ~Kyle -------------- next part -------------- [Unit] Description=Software speech output for Speakup using eSpeak [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/espeakup.pid ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target