A little more information that may go a ways to sorting this bug out. Although I used a debian speakup talking install to install jessie/sid, the installation did not put an ~/.inputrc file in my home directory. If one of those should be in the home directory, what should be in that file for speakup to work correctly? Without ~/.inputrc, unless --edit is initialized in some other way the readline library will not be used by bash according to the bash man page.
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