Hello, Nick Gawronski, on Fri 09 Sep 2016 18:20:42 -0500, wrote: > After rebooting I get espeakup working fine for around 4 > minutes or so then for no reason I can tell the speech stops This is most probably due to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833950 which was investigated and a patch is pending upload. Samuel