Bug#664239: gnome-orca: No speech on startup

[Jason White]

Shane Wegner <shane at debian.org> wrote:
 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/orca/speech.py", line 100, in _initSpeechServer
>     [''])
> ImportError: No module named gnomespeechfactory

Gnome-Speech is obsolete and was removed in Gnome 3.

You need to use Speech-dispatcher instead. You probably have an old Orca
configuration that still refers to Gnome-Speech. Try re-configuring Orca for
Speech-Dispatcher, e.g., orca -t from a terminal.