dectalk express recieving errors

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, that's a pretty common problem. Red Hat decided to change some things, 
and it causes speakup to get those errors. However, here is how I cut the 
problem to a minimum.
I open /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add the following lines to it:

echo 100 >/proc/speakup/dec_express/delay_time
echo 15 >/proc/speakup/dec_express/jiffy_delta

That usually clears up the problem. You also can add custum speech rate, 
pitch, punc_level, etc to that file so that you get the same speech 
settings on startup.

Hth.