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I have been having an issue and I'm not sure how to document this other than to just say what's been happening. I haven't been able to reliably reproduce this issue and I couldn't say what if anything is causing it. Sometimes when using SAPI as my speech engine the speech will randomly stop working and restarting XBMC is the only way to get it back. Other times certain things won't read that SHOULD, like context menus, or the F6 menu. Does anyone else have this issue. I'm on Windows 7 64-bit and I believe I'm still running Frodo. I've been scared to upgrade to Gotham. Should I do that or stick with Frodo?

There is a bug with non-ascii text and SAPI (and most of the backends) that I have just fixed and it will be in the next release. This is possibly what is causing the issue, as what you described is what happens with this bug. If the next release does not fix it, I will probably need a log to see what's up.

Gotham should be safe, but OK, YES/NO and progress dialogs will no longer speak their text depending on the skin. I've submitted some code for XBMC that will fix this plus make it possible to speak a lot of things that weren't accessible before. I'm working with one of the developers to get it in, and maybe I can get it into Gotham.
The dialogs didn't stop speaking because of a change in the XBMC code but because some of the skins changed to using textboxes in the dialogs, which have never been accessible to the addon.