How to Tell Which Synthesizer is Active?

[Hart Larry]

Well, Tony, I wonder if there are messages generated each time my DecTalk USB 
rate-and-pitch drop mysteriously?  If there are, then maybe the couple of 
experts in DecTalk may know of a fix?
I just took a look in /var/log/messages  but mostly found alsa items--and-even 
after a DecTalk slowdown, that file was not updated, but I still think it has 
to do with capitalization.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
Hart