Hi.
I'm using DECtalk e. It was a free upgrade from version 4. You might
want to try it and see if it fixes your problem.
I did impro8e the speech by adding additional palameters to my say
commands.
I added
[:dv ri 90 sm 0][:pe -380][:ra 350][:dv ap 130]
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:15:00PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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
>
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