Hi. The rate on an accent is a hex value. it runs from 0 to f.
I have mine set to d. F is just to fast for me.
Kenny
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:48:52PM +0000, Scott Howell wrote:
> Adam,
>
> Yes, I do use the Accentsa driverand it seems to work very nicely. The
> only thing I wish is I could crank the speed a bit more. Even setting
> the rate to nine by echo 1 >/proc/speakup/rate I don't get much more
> increase in rate. I've heard another person's Accent jabbering at great
> speeds. This holds true with my DoubleTalk PC and external. I know some
> like it slow, but I like it fast. I'm used to really speedy
> speech.<grin>
> Actually the only other issue I have run into is when typing something
> like ls, it pauses a bit before speaking. I again don't know if this has
> anything to do with the firmware of the synth and not sure how to
> determine what that is, but maybe someone has some thoughts on these
> issues.
>
> Thanks everyone who has given me suggestions thus far. This is a nice
> speech card for the money and having the option to run it as an internal
> or external is nice. I just might try to get another.<grin>
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:18:27AM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > Using Speakup review commands with the synth turned off is what I meant by
> > pressing keys. Sorry I didn't make that more clear. It is also quite a
> > kludge IMHO. At the time I originally posted about this issue with an
> > Accent SA, somebody mentioned a script that would reset all synth values
> > on demand. I never got around to playing with it to see if it would
> > reinitialize the Accent SA after it had been turned off, and now that I
> > have the Accent PC and am using it directly, I don't need it. By the way,
> > when using the Accent PC as a serial synthesizer, do you use the Accent SA
> > driver in Speakup?
>
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