Hi Janina: I made another posting explaining a fix that I found for the choppy speech problem. It involves changing the priority of the speechd_up and speech-dispatcher programs. On my laptop, it works very well, I get better speech than I ever have. Let me know if it works for you. DB On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:06:54PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > Interesting, Kirk, because what I get is exactly as you describe. For > example, in my home directory, I often hear my name in my prompt as: > > ja > ni > n > a > > That's pretty choppy. > > Unfortunately, it seems Fedora leaves this variable off, as you suggest > for software speech. I'm running a 2.6.10 kernel, and the only "preempt" > cvariable in the entire config is: > > CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set > > > Kirk Reiser writes: > > 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 > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
