Bug with Speakup and Dectalk

[Hart Larry]

Well, Kirk-and-All, the appostrafee has never worked correctly in processing 
words in the 11 months I've been running Linux.
Some other outstanding concerns, if numbers-and-letters are mixed, they are 
spelled, so if I were to write speakup4you my decpc will say s p e a k u p 4u. 
Also, and this may be a dectalkism but if there are 2 consecutive punctuations 
after a word, I think it also spells it out?
While reading with l y n x  if I use a tab key, it will sometimes read the sameword many times over-and-over-and-over.
Also, if there are 2 consecutive dashes  it says semi :
I didn't notice many of these items useing dectalk with Vocal-eyes or Jaws. 
Thanks
Hart