small speakup and debian issues

[Adam Myrow]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Nick Gawronski wrote:

> Hi, I am using speakup with debian etch with 2.4.18 kernel as found at
> people.debian.org/~shane and find that if I type a capital letter the
> dectalk's speech drops pitch and I need to turn off and on the express
> before pitch is restored the way I like it and the rate.

So, it's not a hardware bug in the Dectalk USB after all as I had assumed. 
It happens to me with the Dectalk USB particularly when I try to review 
rapidly.  The easiest way to get things back is to adjust the value of the 
effected parameter up and down by one.  For example, if the rate changes, 
hit insert+6 then insert+5 to move the rate up then down.  The same trick 
works with pitch, but you use insert+5 then insert+4.  The only way that I 
am aware of to disable the preempting is to rebuild the kernel.  However, 
this doesn't seem to cause problems with hardware synthesizers.