Chris Brannon writes: > Right. The "linux" terminal type is more or less the same as a VT100. > If your terminal type is linux, and you connect via C-Kermit to something > that wants to talk to a VT100, then you shouldn't have any problems > with terminal emulation. I found the likely cause of the weirdness. It is a timing issue. I did an experiment in which I started out with a serial line speed of 38400 baud and the performance of the speech was fairly normal. I then dropped the line speed to 600 baud and every single word was spelled. This is not the old speakup contention issue which has been fixed for quite a while. Instead, this is an issue in which speakup must decide when to process a bunch of letters in to a word. There is a timer that starts each time a character is received and lasts for a small fraction of a second. If more text arrives during that time, it is buffered. When the timer does time out, speakup has a chance to form a word out of this newly-arrived text. In this day and age, 600 baud is about 60 characters per second which is apparently long enough for the timer to think that someone is sending single characters rather than whole blocks of text. The higher the speed, the better the speech. At 9600 baud which is the speed of the FreeBSD serial console, speech starts to get a little rough. I imagine that output from the installer program is a bit bursty which makes for some weird speech. I seem to recall reading about a timer one can set in speakup which may be the one to tweak. Normally, this is not necessary but the data are flowing in more slowly. Also, there may be little breaks in the serial stream as even at 57400, there is a bit of an odd cadence to the speech as it comes in. Thanks for everybody's help. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group
