Nothing exists in terms of a gentoo audio accessibility installation
walkthrough.  I'll be surprised if that ever changes too.  Why this is
happening is because part of espeak comes in the kernel code which is how
you got gentoo talking at all during installation.  I don't know if you
built your kernel or used a pre-built kernel.  Maybe a flag for espeak-ng
is one of those accessibility flags available during kernel building I
don't know.  If an espeak-ng pre-built kernel doesn't yet exist you'd have
to build your own kernel and enable that flag.
This may get you out of the woods or into the weeds, fenrirscreenreader is
another package you could try to emerge on gentoo and have it start and
remove espeak-ng.  I don't know if you went the systemd route or the
openrc route.  From what I've read, openrc is recommended over systemd on
gentoo.
I wish I had better news and I'm another one who could really use an audio
accessibility installation gentoo walkthrough.


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On Mon, 1 May 2023, matthew dyer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have an installed system of gentoo using the gnome desktop profile.  I am 
> trying to get orca installed, but emerge is not happy.  One if the things it 
> is complaining about is that espeak and Espeak-ng can’t be installed at the 
> same time.  Espeak is not even installed, but espeak-ng installed without a 
> problem.  I have the accessibility flag in my make.conf so installing 
> accessibility packages should not be this much of a problem.  I used ubuntu 
> to do the install if this matters.  I am currius if there are any audio 
> walkthrough of doing an install using speech?  I’ve tried the official cds 
> but never was able to get speech.  Accessibility doesn’t seem to be well 
> documented.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
>

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