Here's another oddity, I can SSH into the VM and use the CLI, and I have opened a terminal in the non-talking desktop. In the SSH, I can run voxin-say -f testfile.txt | aplay and it plays. So I made a bash script to do this so I don't make any typos in the non-talking VM, in the terminal. I tested the script in SSH, and it worked. So I run the script in the VM in the terminal, and it does not speak. Even espeak-ng test does not speak in the non talking VM. But, there desktop sounds, like when I backspace in an edit field. Speaker-test works in the SSH session, but not in the non-talking VM. Might this have something to do with pipewire? Glenn
Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "K0LNY ??" <glenn@ervin.email> To: "Chime Hart" <ch...@hubert-humphrey.com> Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2025 10:19 PM Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate Well I tried speechd-up and it didn't find it, so I installed it. Then when I tried to run it, it said it was already installed. But spd-say still does not work. I tried spd-say with both espeak-ng set as the TTS and with Voxin, and neither works with speech-dispatcher. Both espeak-ng and voxin work with a string of text, so they are working, but I don't know what is up with speech-dispatcher. I tried reinstall of python3-speechd and the same with speech-dispatcher, but that didn't help. I removed user-settings.conf in .local/share/orca and did orca -r to restart it, and it restarts, but no sound. I've rebooted the system a number of times too. I did a remove --purge of orca and a install again, and that didn't fix it either. I think there is a problem with speech-dispatcher. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chime Hart" <ch...@hubert-humphrey.com> To: "K0LNY ??" <glenn@ervin.email> Cc: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2025 10:09 PM Subject: Re: Ubuntu-Mate Well, Glen, why not type sudo speechd-up Chime
