that's weird, I don't notice any delay to speak of with my accent pc in an old pII/233. I also used one of these cards in a p/120 wtih 16mb of ram and didn't even notice a delay then. the only synths I've noticed any real delay with is external ones most notably the bns. On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:53:36PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote: > Will this hold true for Artic NoteTakers acting as a synthesizer? > They use the acntsa driver. > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid at sunset.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:05 PM > Subject: Re: boosting responsiveness of accent pc > > > I have noticed the delay with the Accent PC (internal ISA card) on my > old Pentium 133 MHZ system running Slackware (currently version 10.0), > but have not found it to be objectionable. This is the only speech > synthesizer I have run on Linux though, so perhaps I am simply used to > it??? I actually had to play around with the sample line of text you > provided (shortening it and adding additional text to it) to really > notice the delay--the delay does seem to get longer with longer lines > of text here as well. HTH, and have a _great_ day. > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:06:02PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi all. > > > > Is it just me, or is the accent pc sluggish when used with speakup? > > What I mean is the longer the string the accent pc has to speak, the > > more of a delay there is before the string is spoken. Here is an > > illustration of what I'm talking about. > > > > Say for example you type the string: > > > > "This is a rather longish test sentence." > > > > on a blank line without the quotes. If you then use the numpad-8 key to > > read the line with speakup, there is a delay of almost one second > > between when the read line key is pressed, and when the accent pc > > actually starts to speak the sentence. On the other hand, if I type > > the same phrase on a blank line using a doubletalk pc, the doubletalk > > pc speaks the phrase immediately when the read line key is pressed. > > > > I suspect, though am not positive, that this is a speakup-specific > > issue, since I don't have this delay when using window-eyes or provox > > with the accent pc. This behavior holds true for speakup 1.5, and cvs > > speakup, so this is not something that was introduced recently. In > > fact, I have noticed this issue since I got my accent pc about a year > > and a half ago, but didn't comment on it until now, since I couldn't > > think of a clear way to describe the problem. > > > > I do remember that playing with delay_time and jiffy_delta was > > suggested on here before to improve synth responsiveness, however, as > > I recall, this suggestion was made only if one uses the stock > > redhat/fedora kernel, and I am using my own kernel build from the > > vanilla kernel.org source tarball. > > > > Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks. > > > > Greg > > > > > > - -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFBpp2a7s9z/XlyUyARAuXSAKCBp/PhkV3iSXH/J/o+UO2f109e4QCgt/Zk > > RKPXyBS2iHRyjprARU1k130= > > =pqed > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. > COSECANT (x) = COTAN (x) / TAN (x) > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- ...Deep Hack Mode -- that mysterious and frightening state of consciousness where Mortal Users fear to tread. -- Matt Welsh
