Re: spd-say and orca are silent

["K0LNY ??" <glenn@ervin.email>]

Hi, I have  gotten a bit further, but any time I try to configure Orca, it 
locks up.
It will start with
sudo orca
or  just orca.
I made a script that retakes ownership of everything in /home/user and that 
helped a bit, and got me to this point.
I changed the hotkey so it is not windows alt S, it is just like Narrator, 
control windows enter.
I put a custom user-settings.conf in ~/.local/share/orca but the settings 
stay as the default.
Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chevelle" <cstrobel@purelymail.com>
To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2025 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: spd-say and orca are silent


Well, I assume you restarted ORCA with alt-super-s. If that doesn't
work, you could try looking at the Speech Dispatcher logs in
/run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/log.


On 8/18/25 11:00 AM, K0LNY ?? wrote:
> Well I did a purge as suggested and reinstalled orca, I had also purge
> removed speech-dispatcher and python3-speechd.
> After reinstalling orca, it seems that orca installed speech-dispatcher 
> and
> python3-speechd.
> I had a bit of hope when I rebooted into the Mate desktop, I heard orca 
> say
> screenreader on.
> But then it went silent again.
> Almost as if there is some process in the Mate desktop blocking orca.
> I still have audio, in an edit window, or terminal, I get the drip sound
> when I can no longer backspace.
> Again, thanks for any suggestions.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john doe" <johndoe65534@mail.com>
> To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2025 2:11 AM
> Subject: Re: spd-say and orca are silent
>
>
> On 8/18/25 09:00, K0LNY ?? wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>> So I have Debian Bookworm and Orca is silent.
>> If I do
>> spd-say test
>> I hear nothing.
>> But if I do
>> sudo spd-say test
>> I hear espeak-ng speak.
>> I may have made the mistake of running spd-conf with sudo and selecting
>> system after I had trouble with no sudo and user configuration.
>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>> I did an apt reinstall of speech-dispatcher and a reinstall of orca, but
>> that did not fix the problem.
> try to "purge" and re"install" `apt-get --autoremove purge <PKG>` and
> see if it helps.
>