This system is not completely up to date.
Please remove these lines in /etc/asound.conf
pcm.default pulse
ctl.default pulse
or just remove the file.
Also, speech dispatcher should now be at version 0.8.8, so check in
/etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc that you have exactly this line:
Now this is interesting:
Script started on Fri 22 Jun 2018 04:33:03 PM EDT
root@taf:~# cd /var/log/packages
root@taf:/var/log/packages# ls espeak*
espeak-1.48.04-x86_64-4slint espeak-ng-1.49.1-x86_64-3slint
espeakup-0.80-x86_64-7slint
root@taf:/var/log/packages# ls orca*
Now I'm going to check vlc but did want to say putting the dmix line and
the dsnoop line in /etc/pulse/default.pa enabled orca to work. Speech
sounds like it's coming through a napkin held close to a comb when orca
starts up and when orca shuts down but once inside orca I think seems to
work. I
