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.