Ok, that's cautiously promising. The next suggestion is maybe a bit annoying: try undoing or commenting-out the language selection and checking whether the previous error-prone behaviour returns.
I haven't been able to figure out why choosing a language in the config file would make a difference yet, but if we can confirm that it definitely does, then that's a useful clue. On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 20:14 Frank Carmickle <fr...@carmickle.com> wrote: > On Mar 29, 2023, at 14:17, Frank Carmickle <fr...@carmickle.com> wrote: > > That appears to be a very good question, as when I specify a language at > all it doesn't seem to stop speaking. I hadn't even realized that the > system didn't have a value in the config, /etc/default/espeakup. I'll keep > pounding on it. As of the last few hours, I can not make it stop speaking > once I have a language set. Maybe it's that I haven't tried the default > language though. How would I find that? > > Spoke too soon . That time it took a very long time to replicate. > > Next? > > Thanks so much. > --FC > >