punctuation delay after restarting dectalk

[Igor Gueths]

Hi all. Today I had to switch my Dectalk to another machine again, and
when I reconnected the synth to the serial port, I tried out what Kenny
had suggested a while back which was to press some speakup review keys so
that Speakup knows a synth is not present. Once I did this for about 5-10
seconds, I turned the Dectalk back on and pressed numpad zero+numpad
enter. The only difference was that I heard a message that said "Dectalk
restarted." However, I still got the same punctuation delay, in fact I am
getting it now since I haven't rebooted yet. I would prefer to solve this
without having to reboot the machine, as I have had to do in the past.
Does anyone know what could be causing this delay? Also, what is the exact
message that I should hear when Speakup claims to have re-initialized the
Dectalk? Should it be Dectalk restarted, or initialized? I just would like
to make sure I am doing the right thing and am getting the correct
message. Thanks!

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