Source: speech-dispatcher Version: 0.11.1-1 Please don't have speech-dispatcher recommend pulseaudio. There are two working sound servers in Debian now: pulseaudio and pipewire. From a distro management perspective, I think it's better to have the default dependency set from a higher level metapackage or task than from individual packages.
I tested that the orca screen reader still works in today's Ubuntu 22.10 ISO when pipewire is installed and running and pulseaudio is removed. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha