small speakup and debian issues

small speakup and debian issues

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I am using speakup with debian etch with 2.4.18 kernel as found at 
people.debian.org/~shane and find that if I type a capital letter the 
dectalk's speech drops pitch and I need to turn off and on the express 
before pitch is restored the way I like it and the rate.  Has anyone else 
had this similar problem and will there be a fix for it?  I also find that 
if I am reading large passages of text speakup will suddenly stop reading 
and I will need to wait and keep pressing the number 7 if I want to read 
what has been displaied.  I sometimes use grml with software speech and find 
that speakup spells everything instead of speaking it and rather slowly. 
Reading on the grml list It looks like the prempt option in processer type 
and features is causing this problem.  Is there a way that speakup could be 
written where that setting would not effect speech?  Does the debian kernel 
for speakup include software speech support?  I also found a debian package 
called kernel-patch-speakup that is the source for the patch but when I 
tried to patch it into the standard debian kernel the patch failed.  Does 
anyone on this list manage that package and could it be updated? 

Re: small speakup and debian issues

[Adam Myrow]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Nick Gawronski wrote:

> Hi, I am using speakup with debian etch with 2.4.18 kernel as found at
> people.debian.org/~shane and find that if I type a capital letter the
> dectalk's speech drops pitch and I need to turn off and on the express
> before pitch is restored the way I like it and the rate.

So, it's not a hardware bug in the Dectalk USB after all as I had assumed. 
It happens to me with the Dectalk USB particularly when I try to review 
rapidly.  The easiest way to get things back is to adjust the value of the 
effected parameter up and down by one.  For example, if the rate changes, 
hit insert+6 then insert+5 to move the rate up then down.  The same trick 
works with pitch, but you use insert+5 then insert+4.  The only way that I 
am aware of to disable the preempting is to rebuild the kernel.  However, 
this doesn't seem to cause problems with hardware synthesizers.

Re: small speakup and debian issues

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I am really using 2.6.18 kernel, miss typed the number.  If I rebuild 
the speakup kernel image package the way shane built it what is the command 
he uses to build the sources into a binary and do I need to do the make 
config or will makekpkg do this automatically?  Will it make a different 
package for modules and kernel or just one as I want my kernel in one 
package not two?  I know I need to recompile the kernel to change that 
option but is there a way speakup could be coded where that option would not 
have an effect on software synthisizers like flite?  Does the debian kernel 
that shane built have software synthisizer support?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrowa@bellsouth.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: small speakup and debian issues


> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>
>> Hi, I am using speakup with debian etch with 2.4.18 kernel as found at
>> people.debian.org/~shane and find that if I type a capital letter the
>> dectalk's speech drops pitch and I need to turn off and on the express
>> before pitch is restored the way I like it and the rate.
>
> So, it's not a hardware bug in the Dectalk USB after all as I had assumed.
> It happens to me with the Dectalk USB particularly when I try to review
> rapidly.  The easiest way to get things back is to adjust the value of the
> effected parameter up and down by one.  For example, if the rate changes,
> hit insert+6 then insert+5 to move the rate up then down.  The same trick
> works with pitch, but you use insert+5 then insert+4.  The only way that I
> am aware of to disable the preempting is to rebuild the kernel.  However,
> this doesn't seem to cause problems with hardware synthesizers.
>
>
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