Speakup Configuration Strangeness?

[Hart Larry]

Well, while this behavior is still an anoying mystery, I now know how to 
reproduce it.
OK, seemingly only 1 of maybe only 6 of us with DecTalk U S B.
Since I prefer certain letters-and-symbols pronounced differently, I edited 
charactors.  Sure I can type
speakupconf load
My changes are in affect, however at that point, I will not hear top, bottom, 
left-and-right, while in review.
Even more weird is this one.  Once my config is loaded-and-I am in ssh to 
Shellworld, my arrow-and-cursor keys have a 1 charactor delay, but another ssh 
site looks normal.  Iff I reload the DecTalk with the following alias, to get 
around that nasty 4second slow delay,
alias reload-dectalk '/usr/bin/sudo  /sbin/modprobe   -r speakup_dectlk; 
/usr/bin/sudo  /sbin/modprobe   speakup_dectlk '
alias rd '/usr/bin/sudo  /sbin/modprobe   -r speakup_dectlk; /usr/bin/sudo 
/sbin/modprobe   speakup_dectlk '
Once I reload DecTalk, sure I must re-ajust all my settings, pitch, rate, and 
volume.  But now my altered config is not loaded, and so we have zehd and 9 
instead of niner, ETC.
My large question in all of this, why would essentially a key-label dictionary 
slow down an ssh connection--and how can I have my config load without any 
sloer behavior?  On the local hard-drive, I notice nothing weird.  Just 
recently I got AT&T Uverse, went from 3 to 12mb.
The changes I made in the config I coppied to both places--and-I certainly 
cannot set a good value so pitch goes up on capitalization.
And here I was thinking I needed to change a terminal type to vt220 or linux, 
from vt100.
Can some1 please shed some light on these happenings.  Right now I have no 
other installed synthesizer, but I have a registered version of TT synth.
Thanks in advance
Hart