Dectalk Express and HALD

[Adam Myrow]

I have a few lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local which switch between the "soft" 
driver and Dectalk Express driver.  The switch back and forth will get the 
Dectalk behaving again.  Note that /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a 
Slackware-specific script, but other distros will have something similar. 
Here is what I have.  After doing the switch back and forth, I execute 
speakupconf to load my settings.

#configure Speakup
#First, work around the annoying Dectalk bug.
echo "soft" >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth
echo "dectlk" >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth
/usr/local/bin/speakupconf load