You could always check your system resources with both synths, one at a time, for comparison. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Berry" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:20 PM Subject: RE: linux and speakup installation No I disagree with you whole heartedly. A hardware synth is always going to have better performance. When you yank on the power of the cpu as the software synth does you do loose cpu usage. You would be suprised also in how many files are loaded for the software synth too. This is not to say I won't use one but I like the fast response of the hardware synths because if I am not mistaking I believe the synths have a small cpu of their own. The only thing that gets me is when the hardware synth buffer gets full and it refuses to flush out like in a game I have called Dopewars based on an old Dos game. The synth has to read quite a bit and it gets a bit full and starts to lag behind. But too me this is such a small price to pay that I mostly overlook it. On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Sina Bahram wrote: > Isn't that exagerating a bit? I mean when I observe the cpu usage on my 1.8 > ghz running winXP Professional with JFW 5, it's almost minimal, or maybe > close to a third if I have 8 to 10 applications open and some of those > include mp3 player, messenger, and so forth. If I turn jaws off, I can see > that the cpu usage is almost the exact same. So I don't think software synth > really takes up that much power as people might think. Also, using a > doubleTalk: I've really come to hate the voice *grin*. Also, the response > time is about the same, if not a bit slower, than software. > > Take care, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of > electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Janina Sajka > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:25 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: linux and speakup installation > > > So true, Alex. And, another thing, software synths realy take up a lot of > your computer's power. In other words, I'd rather have a 1 gigaherz CPU with > a hardware synth than a 2 gigaherz CPU with a software synth. > > > Alex Snow writes: > > > > I've also observed that hardware synths are faster and better quality > > then software synths. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
