What you're describing happens because of pulseaudio. Orca/speech-dispatcher are using pulseaudio, while espeakup is using the sound card directly, thus no speech from speakup. You can: 1. Rebuild espeakup to use pulseaudio. I haven't done this, but understand it is doable. or: 2. Disable gdm3 from running. You can then use startx to bring up xorg, and espeakup/speakup will be back and talking when you end your x session. Unfortunately, espeakup doesn't talk for me in other consoles while I have the x session launched. So, if you intend to keep long term x sessions open, as well as use the text consoles, then you'll probably want to recompile espeakup to use pulseaudio. Greg On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 09:05:21AM -0400, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Hi Tony, > > This is indeed the problem in Manjaro Linux. I switched to "pure" Arch > with Antergos (easier and faster to install) and the problem still exists. > Vinux users are reporting the problem also. > > It seems as soon as the ORCA starts speaking, speakup dies. Systemctl > reports espeakup is running. > > But no speech in console until I reboot. > > As I said this seems to be for Vinux based on Ubuntu, Arch/Antergos/Manjaro. > > Best wishes, > > David > -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
