is that the echo external you are using or the isa card? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Klein" <kleins@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: Re: Speakup on an Echo > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hello all, > > Just replying to confirm that this did in fact happen. I connected a patch > cable to the headphone jack of the echo PC and connected the other end to > the line-in on my minidisc recorder. The reason for the loudness is that > the amp is rather sensative. > > I found the following querks/differences of behavior when using the echo > with the bns driver. > 1. The echo's buffer is too small to handle all text sent (either that or > it's just a piece3 of crap and can't handle things with multiple periods), > resulting in a 5-second pause sometimes. For example: linux 2.6.11... five > second pause... 7 > Last login:... five-second pause... bla bla bla bla. > 2. The maximum pitch of a BNS is 17 while the echo can go up to 100. I > haven't figured out where the maximum allowable pitch for a synthesizer is > defined, so I haven't modified the driver yet. > 3. Interrupting speech can be a bit... interesting. I find that numpad > enter doesn't always shut it up right away (buffer issues maybe?), but > things such as cursor movement do immediately make the echo stop what it > was doing and speak the new text. > > Hope at least someone finds this interesting. If anyone has some > suggestions for fixing the pause/buffer issue, don't hesitate to send them > to kleins at iquest.net. I'll be able to test them in August when I go back > to school. > > Garrett > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:28:14PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: >> Hi all. I recently got a hold of a recording that Garrett Klein did of >> his encounter with the PC version of an Echo. He managed to get it >> working with Speakup using the BNS driver. I'm not sure how interested >> people would be in this, however yesterday I uploaded >> speakup_on_an_echo2.mp3. That was the entire file. However, >> speakup_on_an_echo.mp3 is only a bit of the file since my connection >> dropped and I had to restart the upload process. I checked to see if >> speakup_on_an_echo2.mp3 had been moved to the goodies directory, however >> I didn't see it. Should I re-upload the whole file to /pub/incoming? I >> will say that the file right now is a little loud, however if there is >> substancial interest for the re-upload I'll try again to turn down the >> volume a bit. >> -- >> How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks? >> -- Alan Cox >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCyzqlpyN96jH+4g0RA54EAKCrxg16CMeaqBvMYSdU2gokrF93twCgktrd > Z8a5vToj39rtdf4x5FITgPk= > =jspN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.9/39 - Release Date: 7/4/2005 > >
