[Blindapple] stuttering Echo II speech

[Blake Roberts]

Hi all,
I have not used the virtual Apple II for months. Someone I know told me 
recently about an issue of the Echo II stuttering when a disk image is 
booted in Mame. That's also the issue where there are mutiple short 
beeps at Apple2 startup instead of one long beep.


I duplicated this issue today in my copy of Mame. Additionally, it 
occurs for me when I load a disk in the old Mess package with Apple2 
emulation. Before
using Mess, I replaced all files in my MessApple-Win folder with those 
in the zip to ensure a clean Mess folder with default .ini files.

To my knowledge, my friend and I are both using 64-bit Windows 10. 
Multiple reboots of my computer did not resolve issue.

Eventually, I thought the presence of JAWS could be cause of Echo2 
stuttering (if JAWS does not unload fully from memory). I changed the 
screen reader
starting with Windows to NVDA. The Echo2 speech stuttering issue 
repeated itself in Mame and Mess. I did not have either screen reader 
running before loading
Mame/Mess. I have used my computer for many years.

Does anyone have ideas to resolve the speech stuttering issue?

Blake