#linux #accessibility question: How the heck do I actually use `espeakup`? I have it running as a system service but I'm not sure how to make it do anything. e.g. I don't hear anything when it starts and my terminals aren't reacting any different. The man page is very sparse without any guide on how I'm supposed to actually use it.

@mauve eSpeakup is the bridge between Speakup and eSpeak. If you don't have one or the other, nothing will happen when you log in via shell or drop to shell. Also, it's been a while, but I think it only works on eSpeak, not eSpeakNG.

As an alternative, you might try Fenrir, which is an entire shell screen reader written in Python.

@bscross32 TY! It seems arch linux doesn't have "speakup" in their package manager. Must have misunderstood something somewhere.

I still haven't had luck getting fenrir to work. Could it be due to me using wayland as the "top level" window manager instead of the default linux terminal emulator? 😅 It starts, and it seems to capture Fenrir+H, but it's not reading my terminals.