I am going to make a suggestion which may help your chopiness and may not. The reason I say may not is because I don't understand all the facts from what you folks are talking about. I have noticed with the newer kernels 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 software speech is very disjointed almost like you only get a few letters or a portion of a word at a time. This is do to a newly instituted kernel configuration option called something like Big Kernel Lock Preempting. Hmmm, let me go look it up exactly: CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL should be set to no. The menu choice which is under processor features looks like: Preempt The Big Kernel Lock. You would only set this to no if you are using software speech because in most cases it is wise to have it on. If you check your configuration and this is on which is the default then when you turn it off you should have significantly better software speech output quality at least. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
