serial synths and speakup

[Adam Myrow]

Speakup works OK with my Dectalk USB in serial mode in kernel 2.6.37.6. 
This is the stock kernel of Slackware 13.37.  It still has the 
long-standing bug of randomly changing the speech rate to very slow, 
randomly dropping the pitch instead of properly shifting it to uppercase, 
and changing the punctuation mode so that a few characters are spoken that 
aren't at startup.  I suspect most of this is due to the fact that the 
Dectalk USB isn't 100% compatible with the Dectalk Express despite the 
claims of the manufacturer.  I'm also running on a 32-bit system, and I've 
heard that this problem really started showing up with 64-bit systems.