Gaijin wrote: > My LTLK has never been able to handle lengthly outputs with any > of the speakup kernels I've used, actually. Long directory listings > wouldcrash something )I couldn't tell you what), and the system could be > crashed with a long directory lising. The keys would become inoperative > and the synthesizer would continue to speak until it finally stopped. > Hi, I have a couple of comments on this. First, I'm using a Doubletalk LT and have had similar problems since DOS in 1996. The problem seems to be that it has a small buffer. In DOS with Vocal-Eyes, the buffer seems to be about 32 KB. It was frustrating reading novels because it would stop after about 30 screens of text and I would have to page up usually twice. What was strange is that even though speech would stop, the cursor didn't keep advancing. I was using the view.exe program which comes with Vocal-Eyes. It's nice because it automatically scrolls text so I don't have to press a key after every screen. The scrolling would apparently stop as though something was locked up or put on standby, but in fact pressing the space bar to stop reading would cause no ill effect and let me page up to where it quit reading. I read many novels that way, stopping about every 30 minutes to back up and reread after speech stopped. The DEC-talk express doesn't have this problem and the old Echo GP didn't either. Getting back to Speakup, I've used the same synthesizer on an almost new machine with two cores and a good motherboard and I have the same problem as Michael. I'm not sure it's a Speakup problem, but if I read a very long directory listing, Speakup dies and speech won't shut up until the buffer is empty. If I tap the print screen key a few times, I'll eventually hear the "I'm alive" message but it obviously reinitialized the synth. I have to manually adjust the volume and rate up and back down a step to get the settings back where they should be. I don't know exactly how large the buffer is with Speakup before it dies, but I would say definitely more than a screen full but less than 32 KB which is the internal synth buffer. I would guess about 4 to 8 KB but that's a guess. One thing that will definitely reproduce this problem is this command: apt-cache search firewall If you stop speech with the numpad enter quickly, no problem, but if you let it read the first 20 entries or so, it shuts down Speakup. Usually I don't have a problem, only with very long command output like the above.
