re-posting my question on aptitude, reply to the capitalization and pitch change and another question about voice rate and pitch change

[Sean M McMahon]

I looked in the aptitude docs and so far haven't found what p and i mean 
next to the list of packages anyone know?  If my synth won't recognize 
pitch changes, then perhaps speakup could be modified to anounce cap+ 
letter, something like that.  Finally, I tried to change the rate for 
speakup yesterday and nothing happened.  It worked the day before.  When I 
tried to enter the rate, my synth spoke a lot of escape sequences and 
garbage.  Between the time when rate change worked and now, I did reboot a 
couple of times and do one shutdown, and speakup is now the default kernel 
so talking now comes up at boot time.  Any ideas?