Hi Janina, No, I haven't. As I said, the speech is so unintelligible that I haven't really tried anything much. If it might help, I will try and get sighted assistance with doing this, but are there instructions on how to accomplish it? I am really rather daunted by the whole thing. Thanks. Sheila. In message <20031109000250.GO6622 at rednote.net>, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> writes >Hi, Sheila: > >Have you downloaded and installed the latest Speakup Modified kernels >for Red Hat 8 available on the web site? These contain the CVS version >of Speakup and new drivers for the Apollo. > >You are correct that this synth has been problematic. I'm not yet clear >whether the issues are well and thoroughly resolved myself. > > >Sheila Acock writes: >> From: Sheila Acock <sheilac at sheilac.demon.co.uk> >> >> Hi, >> >> Please don't shoot me down or tell me to go and read the documentation. >> I was really keen to try Linux, and have spent many more hours than I >> ought to have done reading documentation, but I can't say it came >> together as a coherent whole, and I have had so many problems, I am >> feeling quite discouraged. >> >> Having read the HowTo about installing Redhat with Speakup, I decided >> to take the plunge and buy a box set in the hope that I could get a >> system up and running to play with fairly quickly. >> >> I won't bore you with details of the problems encountered, but I now >> have Redhat 8.0 running on a system with an Athlon 850 processor, with >> 250 mb memory and an Apollo2 synth. The trouble is, the speech is so >> disjointed I am having difficulty making much sense of it. >> >> Looking back through the List archive, I see that a couple of people >> reported a similar problem using Apollo2 and Redhat 8 back in February. >> There did not seem to be a completely satisfactory solution, though one >> person said that a suggestion involving "delay_time" and "jiffy_delta" >> had helped to some extent. >> >> I have signed up for Janina's pre-Techshare Linux workshop, but I don't >> think I'm going to make much progresss until I can get reasonable >> speech, so any help in sorting this problem would be much appreciated, >> remembering that I am a complete newbie and need things spelt out in >> words of one syllable. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Sheila. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Sheila Acock
