SpeakUP and IRC...

[Chris Brannon]

> This has been available in speakup for ages unless it's been taken  
> out. There's a setting that turns off keyboard interruption of speech.  
> Set /sys/module/speakup/parameters/no_interrupt to 1 (instead of 0)  

It's still available.  I experimented with it just now, and it seems to
decrease Speakup's responsiveness.
Assuming that one is comfortable typing without keyboard echo, another
option is to  disable it:
echo 0 > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/key_echo

-- Chris