For the record we have noted the same problem with speechd_up 0.4 and speech-dispatcher-0.6.6 using TTSynth. While there is some of this behavior with our Speakup Connector for TTSynth, the problem is much worse with speechd_up. Katie Durden writes: > hello, > > So for the last few months i've been noticing that at times software > speech was getting split up, often in the middle of a word. I didn't > have the motivation to track it down and fix it, but lately its been > really bugging me, a few other people i know have mentioned it to me > off list, and i see that someone posted about this a few weeks ago as > well. > > Well I think i may have isolated the problem, but not sure how to fix it. > > First, for me it has only ever happened on text that was scrolling on > the screen. if i'm reviewing text using the numpad keys, its fine, if > i hit the numpad plus to read the entire screen it never happens, but, > for example, when scrolling through a man page, if you hit space and > let it read the entire new screen of text, half the words are broken > apart.