I have a few lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local which switch between the "soft" driver and Dectalk Express driver. The switch back and forth will get the Dectalk behaving again. Note that /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a Slackware-specific script, but other distros will have something similar. Here is what I have. After doing the switch back and forth, I execute speakupconf to load my settings. #configure Speakup #First, work around the annoying Dectalk bug. echo "soft" >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth echo "dectlk" >/sys/accessibility/speakup/synth /usr/local/bin/speakupconf load
