espeak-ng on archlinux

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I got espeak-ng partly working but not completely.
When I key a line in and hit enter, espeak-ng speaks what I keyed in.
That is all espeak-ng does.  So far as I can tell no espeak-ng.service
file exists to enable and start espeak-ng when the system boots either.
Finally, if during an archlinux installation espeak-ng is installed rather
than espeak it's possible it's not pulling dependencies espeak-ng needs to
speak.
It would be nice if espeak-ng would speak what the computer puts up on the
screen after I type a command but this isn't yet happening over here.