Hi, Well whatever the issue was it is now gone and things work as they
should accept that now I am able to bring up the mate desktop or
espeakup but not both. If I am at the mate login screen and press
control and alt and f1 I do get the text console login prompt but once I
login to mate and am in a web browser if I try to switch back to the
console I am unable to get speech working in there so have to stick with
the mate desktop so my question is what exactly is causing the issue
with no speech in the console when others have not had this issue? Nick
Gawronski
On 7/9/2025 12:46 PM, jude dashiell wrote:
There are a couple other options.
Fenrir or tdsr.
Tdsr needs pyte speech-dispatcher and python3-speechd then
Git clone https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr
After that cd tdsr then ./tdsr enter to see if it comes up talking. Speak up
wouldn’t work on a Chromebook I had so I used tdsr to get around chrome box
since tdsr performs way better in Linux on Chromebook than chrome box.
On Jul 4, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Nick Gawronski <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, I have trixie installed and noticed that after lots of updates espeakup no
longer speaks when the system reboots to the console but I am able to use orca
just fine. I have no idea what packages that were upgraded caused the issue as
there were espeak-ng and speech-dispatcher updates but espeakup was not updated
and the systemctl status command ran fine with no issues and it has the
espeakup process running. Here is the output from that command.
● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2025-07-04 08:36:41 CDT; 3min 24s ago
Invocation: 33d04d2a117b43f3a1f47dbde4fe4e47
Docs: man:espeakup(8)
Process: 973 ExecStartPre=modprobe speakup_soft (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 974 ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup --default-voice=${default_voice}
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1000 (espeakup)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 9265)
Memory: 13.2M (peak: 14.5M)
CPU: 300ms
CGroup: /system.slice/espeakup.service
└─1000 /usr/bin/espeakup --default-voice=
Jul 04 08:36:41 dellsysteminspironn7110 systemd[1]: Starting espeakup.service -
Software speech output for Speakup...
Jul 04 08:36:41 dellsysteminspironn7110 systemd[1]: Started espeakup.service -
Software speech output for Speakup.
Nick Gawronski
