feature request

[Adam Myrow]

Actually, I've never had any problems with a hardware synthesizer.  In my 
case, a Dectalk USB in serial mode emulating a Dectalk Express.  It has 
its quirks, but spelling words is not one of them.  So, I suspect the 
problem was more with software speech than hardware speech.  I think 
software speech is more sensitive to timing, whereas with the Dectalk, all 
that is needed is to dump text at a serial port and let the synthesizer 
decide what to do with it.