Greetings! I booted up with the grml 1.0 Cd, using the "grml swspeak" command. After that and running the swspeak command again, I tried renice 3 `ps -e |grep speechd-up |head -1 |cut -d' ' -f1` as you suggested. I got a short error/usage message. I then retried the command, after replacing each ` with ". I got the message that the old priority of 0 was changed to 3. I also tried -12. There was no change in the way the software speech read. Could I have missed something here? Thanks! Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "C.M. Brannon" <cmbrannon@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:18 PM Subject: spelling was Re: GRML swspeak? > "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net> writes: > > > that the speech went character by boring character as it read text > > that came onto the screen: I had to use speakup's reading commands > > to get the reading right. > > There's a very easy fix for this: > renice 3 `ps -e |grep speechd-up |head -1 |cut -d' ' -f1` > sets the niceness level of speechd-up to 3, and the spelling issue > goes away. No need to compile your kernel without preemption of the > big kernel lock, etc. > It works for me, at any rate. YMMV. > > PS. I think there are issues with speechd-up, but I can't quite put my > finger on them. speechd-up seems to be overly greedy when reading and > speaking text from /dev/softsynth. > > -- Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.0/820 - Release Date: 5/27/2007 12:31 PM > >
