I think my computer is too fast... I'm still having the issue where when using software speech with speakup, auto-spoken output gets hacked apart. a line of text might be read like this t, his is a, r, eal, ly bad ,l ine of t, xt really annoying. does it with every software synth i try. I think that speakup isn't outputting text to /dev/softsynth fast enough, speechd-up is reading it faster. or at least that's my guess, I really don't know enough about how that all works to be sure... I think this because when I first boot up the computer, and when nothing is running, the problem is extremely bad. a single line will be split up 4 or five times, and its almost every line that does it. once i start up gnome, boot up windows in vmware, and in general just have lots of programs open, it ... doesn't go away completely, but lessens. it might split a line once or twice and its only every four or five lines. so the more memory I use, the more processing power is in use, the less noticeable it is. Also I have speakup/speechd-up/speech-dispatcher installed on an old computer, 400mhz with 128mb ram, and the problem is non-existent. My main box is amd64 dual-core 2.0 ghz with 2gb of ram and the root device is a 10000 rpm drive. So could this be the case? is my computer just too fast for speakup? lol. Katie D
