Hi, it might be your sound card. I saw this with a program called saytime saytime responded very well with one sound card but was very choppy with another and it took much longer to speak with the second card. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:15 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation Hi, Luke: I've tried both flite and DEC Talk 4. I haven't bought 5 and don't plan to. Response is the same. The speech is extremely choppy so that I'm only comfortable hearing it while reviewing the screen. Last year I had a Thinkpad T30 which was much better. So, I don't understand where the breakdown is. Luke Yelavich writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:55:13AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote: > > May I say that I am unhappy with the lack of responsivness using > > software speech with Speakup on a 1.13 Ghz machine? So, I can barely > > grok a Pentium 90. > > Is that with flite/festival? As I am using DecTalk 5 on a > ThinkPad R50, 1.4Ghz and it is very responsive. > - -- > Luke _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
