Provided as another option-
I re-examined much of what I was using TTS for and realized I could avoid a lot of the potential slow-down problems by using @corerootedxb's great notification driver.
[RELEASE] Alexa Notifications Driver
The benefits are that there is not a constantly running service (Echo Speaks), no chance of me composing a malformed rule that repeats indefinitely or spawns multiple instances, and it provides a hard-to-ignore visual reminder (that spinning yellow LED), and on Show devices, it gives you the text of the notification. Using Alexa's built in routines , I can lower the volume at night if I so desire.
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