diff --git a/code/game/objects/items/devices/radio/radio.dm b/code/game/objects/items/devices/radio/radio.dm
index 3e1c1aa47b9..07c743084f1 100644
--- a/code/game/objects/items/devices/radio/radio.dm
+++ b/code/game/objects/items/devices/radio/radio.dm
@@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ GLOBAL_LIST_INIT(default_medbay_channels, list(
 	var/jobname // the mob's "job"
 	var/rankname // the formatting to be used for the mob's job
 
-	if(jammed)
-		Gibberish_all(message_pieces, 100)
+	if(jammed && !syndiekey)
+		Gibberish_all(message_pieces, 100, 70)
 
 	// --- Human: use their actual job ---
 	if(ishuman(M))
diff --git a/code/modules/mob/mob_helpers.dm b/code/modules/mob/mob_helpers.dm
index 51f53a39b12..02677741abb 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/mob_helpers.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/mob_helpers.dm
@@ -344,9 +344,9 @@
 
 	return returntext
 
-/proc/Gibberish_all(list/message_pieces, p)
+/proc/Gibberish_all(list/message_pieces, p, replace_rate)
 	for(var/datum/multilingual_say_piece/S in message_pieces)
-		S.message = Gibberish(S.message, p)
+		S.message = Gibberish(S.message, p, replace_rate)
 
 
 /proc/muffledspeech(phrase)