On Fri, 10 Jan 2025, K0LNY ?? wrote:

I think he said he installed espeak.
If someone does apt install espeak
They will get espeak, not espeak-ng.

This is true. However, he said he was trying to use espeakup, which in Debian Bookworm is compiled against libespeak-ng, not libespeak. So even if libespeak is available on the system, espeakup will not use it.

If you run:

ldd /usr/bin/espeakup

One of the output lines will say something like this:

        libespeak-ng.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libespeak-ng.so.1  
(0x00007f4ac4dee000)

This is why the espeakup package depends on the libespeak-ng1 package. If it could support either package then this would be reflected in the package dependencies.

HTH,
Geoff.

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