Hi everyone. I'm trying to upgrade my Gentoo system to use Systemd instead of Openrc. I use the Speakup screen reader built into my kernel and the Espeak software synthesizer. I also use Espeakup to connect the two. Starting Espeakup was easy under Openrc using an Init script which the ebuild installed, but I cannot figure out how to start it under Systemd. As I understand it, you can only start a program under Systemd if you have the appropriate Systemd service file in /usr/lib/system/system. I have played around with USE flags and re-installed Espeakup several times. Try as I might, I cannot get the Gentoo Espeakup ebuild version 0.71 to install a Systemd service file. For this reason I cannot start Espeakup and now have no speech. Does anyone on this list have experience of running Espeakup under Systemd? If so, I'd be very grateful to hear how you did it.
Many thanks for any help. John Robinson
