arch installation

[Kyle]

First of all, you will need to create
/etc/modules-load.d/speakup.conf
containing the following lines:

speakup
speakup_soft

Once you have done this, or if you did it already, you need the attached 
file. I think it's not yet in the latest version of espeakup. Save the 
attached file as
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/espeakup.service
on your Arch installation. Then do

sudo systemctl start espeakup
sudo systemctl enable espeakup.service

Speakup will start talking as soon as you enter the first command, and 
will begin speaking automatically at boot time on the next reboot after 
typing the second command. I hope the new systemd unit makes it into the 
released version soon.

Note: a file similar to my attachment is now in the version of espeakup 
in community-testing, so enabling that repo for now to pull in the 
latest espeakup will also give you a talking system, although you will 
still need to be sure the service is enabled.

sudo systemctl enable espeakup.service

Hope this helps.
~Kyle
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[Unit]
Description=Software speech output for Speakup using eSpeak

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/espeakup.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/espeakup
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target