Low Speakup volume in Ubuntu?

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    I've noticed that with speakup and Speech-dispatcher, my speech volume is quite low with Espeak to the point where I can only hear it if I strain my ears.  This is a little frustrating, but at least I've confirmed that the system works as intended for the most part.  I can modprobe speakup_sftsyn anyway.
Any answers on why the volume is so low?  Orca's isn't...
Thanks,
Zack.