[orca-list] Need Help Getting my Speech Back

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi all,

I am running a system with Ubuntu 12.04.2 and Orca 3.4.2, and I think
I must have done something to mess up my copy of Orca because it no
longer will speak to me. All I did was install the speechd-up package,
hoping to get Speakup working, restarted and now Orca is dead as a
hammer. it won't speak no matter what I do and neither will Speakup.
What can i do to get my speech back. I'm in a panic because that drive
has several GB of stuff on it and if I have to reinstall Ubuntu from
scratch not only am I going to be irate I'm going to loose a lot of
stuff for absolutely no reason. So can someone tell me if there is a
quick and easy fix for this problem?

thanks.