Ok, Here is another attempt to get the info for the failure of espeakup in debian testing to start. I got a typescript this time and I am attaching it to the message so that someone can tell me what is going on here.
-- Romans 10 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Script started on Mon Oct 2 19:33:39 2017 [?1h= [0;1;31m●[0m espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup[m Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service; disabled; vendor preset[m Active: [0;1;31mfailed[0m (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-10-02 19:20:26 EDT; 13min a[m Docs: man:espeakup(8)[m Process: 15488 ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup -V ${VOICE} [0;1;31m(code=exited, status=2)[0m[m [m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: [0;1;39mespeakup.service: Unit entered failed sta[m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: [0;1;39mespeakup.service: Failed with result 'exi[m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service hold-off time o[m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: Stopped Software speech output for Speaku[m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: [0;1;39mespeakup.service: Start request repeated [m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: [0;1;31mFailed to start Software speech output fo[m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: [0;1;39mespeakup.service: Unit entered failed sta[m Oct 02 19:20:26 Enterprise systemd[1]: [0;1;39mespeakup.service: Failed with result 'exi[m [7mlines 1-14/14 (END)[27m[K [K[?1l> Script done on Mon Oct 2 19:34:26 2017