speech-dispatcher and espeak

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I'm using Debian's repositories, not Ubuntu's, but the version of Orca
I have running depends on speech-dispatcher, and while
speech-dispatcher doesn't depend on specific TTS engines or their
speech-dispatcher modules, the version of Speech-dispatcher I'm
running recommends speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng and suggests the
speech-dispatcher modules for several other TTS engines... and trying
to remove speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng broke speech on my system, both
in GUI and Console, forcing me to restore a system backup... Since I
doubt Ubuntu has made any drastic changes to Orca and it's
dependencies, I'd expect your system to already have Speech-dispatcher
installed, and probably at least one of espeak and espeak-ng and their
corresponding Speech-dispatcher modules.