jerky speech from doubletalk?

[Aaron Howell]

Hi all,
I've just gotten a doubletalk lt for work (I assume its the latest rom etc since it only came into the country from rc systems about 3 weeks ago.
I performed an install of the new redhat beta (7.3.94) which went off without a hitch using speakup off the standard redhat image.
The problems started after I rebooted the machine.
I've set the rate to 6 and the punctuation level to 3 but not changed anything else.
Now, my speech has gotten incredibly jerky.
I wonder if this is a doubletalk problem, a speakup problem, or related to the hz changes in the i686 kernel?
The best impression I can give of it is 
left bracket, root, at hen, tilde dollar, right bracket.
its like, there's a pause, between, different words, in the sentence.
Can I fix this somehow, or should I try the i386 kernel?
Any help much apreciated.
Rgards
Aaron

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