From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mta2.math.wisc.edu (mta2.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.82]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2383310B0B for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:19:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mta2.math.wisc.edu Received: from mta2.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta2.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id D1HwVT73-R7R for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:19:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta2.math.wisc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta2.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 103FE380013 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:19:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ulam.math.wisc.edu (ulam.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.245]) by mta2.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:19:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vv507j (vv507j.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ulam.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0614E2BD95 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:19:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <088001c8db8d$d62cc8b0$4ba65c90@vv507j> From: "John Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20080625152731.GA8054@braille.uwo.ca><20080628200002.GA8185@braille.uwo.ca> <20080628210144.GA10638@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: speechd-up in debian SID Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:19:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:19:27 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 4:01 PM Subject: Re: speechd-up in debian SID > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 04:00:02PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote: >> I am having problems with both packages though. Randomly (or so it seems) >> software speech just stops talking. I have checked with orca when this >> happens, and everything seems to be in place. i.e. speech-dispatcher >> still talks, speechd-up is still running, the speakup_soft module is >> still loaded). Speakup core is compiled into the kernel. It stops talking >> anywhere from 2 minutes to... right now, version 0.4 has been working >> well for about 5 hours. I have had it working with and without orca and >> the gnome-terminal concurrently. > > I have seen this happen occasionally, but only with a delay of a second > or so. It started after I went from rate 8 to rate 9, and only if my > system is fairly heavily loaded. This is of course on a 32-bit > system. A shot in the dark suggestion would be to play with the > niceness of speechd-up/speech-dispatcher, and see if it helps any. I > recall someone else posting on here a while back ago, claiming that > their 64-bit system was too fast for software speech, but I don't > remember what symptoms this report was based on. Sorry I can't be of > much more help. > This is the first feedback I've ever gotten about my debian speechd-up package. It's been downloaded a bunch of times but as far as I know, I'm the only one who ever actually used it. I'm setting up an AMD64 machine right now (my doubletalk is chattering away right next to me) so I will be able to test the AMD64 package. I am pretty sure the i386 package works well because I've installed it hundreds of times on several different types of computers. But I'm not sure the 2 packages are the same. Speechd-up didn't change but linux and speakup did. My speechd-up script attempts to install an init.d script that you can use to start & stop software speech and it had to be modified quite a bit for kernels 2.6.21 and greater.