a thought about Michael's weirdness

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Sorry, Michael, I mean your speakup's weirdness. I did not retain your
earlier messages, but a thought occurred to me:

I saw something like that on my system months ago which turned out to
be caused by failing to terminate the espeakup connector after
switching speakup to using an external synthesizer. It was essential to
terminate both the espeakup connector and the speechd-up connector when
attempting to use an external synthesizer with speakup. The talkwith
script does that for you, but if you are switching synths manually, it
is easy to neglect terminating those daemons. I think that's why
they're called daemons, actually.

If the above doesn't apply to your situation, maybe it will help
someone else. I am using speakup without any of the peculiarities you
described, cutting and pasting like mad between consoles, etc., without
the slightest sign of any abnormality here.

Chuck

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