Speakup Dies when I Sleep my Laptop!

[Steve Holmes]

I've been noticing a big problem lately when I close the lid on my
laptop. I lose speech completely when I re-open the lid later. I'm
running latest Arch Linux with the systemd implementation so espeakup
is started as a system service and I also have speech dispatcher
running as a central process using the systemd stuff. Anyway, When the
lid is closed, it automatically runs whatever steps to "sleep" the
machine. When I open it back up, most everything else "wakes" up find
but I have no speech. I recall some incidents where espeak and spd-say
would work when manually tested from the command line. alas, speakup
is down for the count. I even tried recently to do a "systemd restart
espeakup" but that managed to completely lock up that console
session. When this systemd stuff got introduced a short while ago, I
recalled everything coming up just fine. Now, no speech every time. I
have to reboot to get speakup back.

Any ideas why this is going on?