From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.secure-ssl-server.us ([212.17.38.11]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AIcPf-0001IC-00 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 18:22:39 -0500 Received: from desktop ([193.203.157.142]) by mail.secure-ssl-server.us (Merak 6.0.8) with ASMTP id FF8D6A80 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:22:06 -0000 From: "Darragh" To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:21:45 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c3a64f$16c96370$0100a8c0@desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Fragmented speech using Redhat 8.0 and Apollo2 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:22:39 -0000 I cant exactly who was good enough to send that back then but I kept it as it was so helpful. HZ is set to 512. To compensate, you'll need to=20 change the timing variables for Speakup. In the /proc/speakup/apollo=20 directory, you'll se files called jiffy_delta and delay_time, among others. =20 Note that I might not have spelled apollo the way it is in the=20 /proc/speakup directory. Use the "cat" command to display the value=20 contained in the two pseudo files. For example: "cat jiffy_delta" and "cat=20 delay_time", without the quotes, of course. To change a value, use the=20 "echo" command. For example: "echo 15 > jiffy_delta" and "echo 80>=20 delay_time". Using cat, find the value of jiffy_delta. Multiply the value=20 by five. For example, if the value of jiffy_delta is 3, make it 15. Then,=20 find the value of delay_time. Divide it by 5. For example, if you find 400, make it 80. If this works, you can write a script to make this=20 happen on boot. I do have this happening at boot, but it was a while ago and I've not touched linux much since. Hope that helps Darragh -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Sheila Acock Sent: 08 November 2003 23:02 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Fragmented speech using Redhat 8.0 and Apollo2 =7FHi, Please don't shoot me down or tell me to go and read the documentation. I was really keen to try Linux, and have spent many more hours than I ought to have done reading documentation, but I can't say it came together as a coherent whole, and I have had so many problems, I am feeling quite discouraged. Having read the HowTo about installing Redhat with Speakup, I decided to take the plunge and buy a box set in the hope that I could get a system up and running to play with fairly quickly. I won't bore you with details of the problems encountered, but I now have Redhat 8.0 running on a system with an Athlon 850 processor, with 250 mb memory and an Apollo2 synth. The trouble is, the speech is so disjointed I am having difficulty making much sense of it. Looking back through the List archive, I see that a couple of people reported a similar problem using Apollo2 and Redhat 8 back in February. There did not seem to be a completely satisfactory solution, though one person said that a suggestion involving "delay_time" and "jiffy_delta" had helped to some extent. I have signed up for Janina's pre-Techshare Linux workshop, but I don't think I'm going to make much progresss until I can get reasonable speech, so any help in sorting this problem would be much appreciated, remembering that I am a complete newbie and need things spelt out in words of one syllable. Thanks. Sheila. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup