Arch and Espeakup

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Good evening folks,
I apologize if this is a duplicate question; perhaps people already know 
about it because I've noticed it isn't a problem on just one machine.

Anyway, I've noticed that since an upgrade a couple months ago, espeakup 
on Arch Linux is having problems. It quits speaking suddenly. I can 
restart it by restarting the system service, but it will quit again 
after a few minutes of typing. Also, with the latest upgrade to Linux 
4.8 now it delays for about a minute restarting the service. I do that 
too. Does anyone else have this problem, or is it something about my 
configuration? It's happening on all machines on which I run Arch Linux 
with espeakup.

Thanks in advance.
Joe