Hi Kirk, > On Sep 10, 2024, at 16:59, Kirk Reiser <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Frank: My issue has been that espeakup doesn't start on boot and > hasn't for the last couple of years. Just in the past few days Chris > and Tyler have been helping me and I think we have a work around which > I've been testing for a couple days now. It looks pretty consistant so > far. Interesting. I have not had this issue. The systemd unit, that has shipped with Debian versions, for years now, has worked for me.