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It turns out both purge commands for xorg and pulseaudio failed for some
reason over here and speech for now is temporarily back to normal. I
now don't know what's going on over here any longer. It could be this
sound system is on its last legs and that wouldn't be surprising since I'm
using one of the early amd k8 athelon computers. I know components of
xorg are still on the system since otherwise emacs would have been cleared
from the system and it wasn't.
