I think you're correct, it seems speech-dispatcher was made an optional dependency for firefox build and that Arch requires 'festival-freebsoft-utils'[1] along

I think you're correct, it seems speech-dispatcher was made an optional dependency for firefox build and that Arch requires 'festival-freebsoft-utils'[1] along with 'speech-dispatcher' for narrator but the former hasn't been updated in a long time. Not sure whether that's the reason, but narrator doesn't work even after installing those packages although the speech-dispatcher gets triggered in the firewall when the reader mode is accessed. Interestingly, this is a closed bug in Arch. Guess it's time to reopen it. [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/festival-freebsoft-utils/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/festival-freebsoft-utils/ [2]https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50886 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50886