/etc/alsa/conf.d My upgraded bookworm system has 10-rate-lav.conf 10-samplerate.conf 10-speexrate.conf 50-arcam-av-ctl.conf 50-jack.conf 50-oss.conf 50-pulseaudio.conf 60-a52-encoder.conf 60-speex.conf 60-upmix.conf 60-vdownmix.conf 98-usb-stream.conf 99-pulseaudio-default.conf.example 99-pulse.conf I was able to fix the virtual machine system by doing sudo apt install pulseaudio Now if you type 'amixer' it will work. sudo apt purge pulseaudio Now 'amixer' and speakup still worked. I'm not saying this is the correct solution, but it might be a work-around.If you read this message from the Debian forum he is asking about essentially the same problem, but nobody gave him an answer.
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=156266 On 9/21/25 3:26 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hope this helps.
Hi, I just did the installation with the latest network image written to the USB stick and the same issue happened. I get speech with orca and the mate desktop but no espeakup console speech and before I go installing other voices I like to make sure the default setup works. I filed an installation-report bug number https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1115864 if you want to take a look at it. Nick GawronskiOn 9/21/2025 11:19 AM, john doe wrote:On 9/21/25 5:14 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:On Sat, 20 Sep 2025, Nick Gawronski wrote:Hi, I just did the fresh installation using the RC3 image and once it was completed orca works just fine but no speech what so ever in the console.Apologies if I'm missing something, but Trixie was released 6 weeks ago. In fact, 13.1 is already out.Is there any reason why you aren't using the release version?The OP has opened a bug, where the same advice ([1]) was suggested! To the OP, please link your threads in your bug report. If you want help, the more context we have the better. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1115864