Dec-Talk Pitch-and-rate?

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If this helps any, I notice this with the DECTalk Express, too.

At 11:08 AM 10/8/2005, you wrote:
>Hi all on my last full day in this location.  I still notice with 
>the dectalk usb unit, while arrowing down in screen review, many 
>times the pitch-and rate suddenly get knocked down.  At that point I 
>must go to the speakup functions which ajust these.  I must press 
>each of those once--and my settings are back the way I want them, 
>rate 7 and pitch around 149.
>Unrelated, I went in the list of charactors and made some changes, 
>so for example, when I type 9 it says niner.  Well, for some reason 
>any capital letter I type, it now says quote in a loer voice before 
>saying the letter I type.  So if I type a shift s   it would say quote s quote
>Also, remember quite some weeks ago I asked about some strange 
>behavior of dectalk reading the pine index, well, I spoke with a 
>programmer at Access Solutions--and he says its a bug in the 
>engine--and he will try-and-fix it. This is where its saying dates 
>and message numbers in reverse order, so for a message 1 on october 
>8  it might  say
>>- 1 Oct 8
>October first 8
>Thanks in advance
>Hart
>
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