I'm on a 2.4 kernel, 2.4.27 but that is great info if/when I upgrade to 2.6. Is there anything in the 2.4 series that may help with software speech? Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:45 PM Subject: Re: Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
