From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao107.cox.net ([68.230.241.39]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HsOIi-0004VL-00 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:21:12 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070527192042.KJVY12190.fed1rmmtao107.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:20:42 -0400 Received: from bonus-eruptus ([72.198.87.190]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id 4KLh1X00146QN3s0000000; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:20:41 -0400 From: cmbrannon@cox.net (C.M. Brannon) To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: spelling was Re: GRML swspeak? References: <000201c7a081$1e5d3a00$17b2a8c0@oemcomputer> <002101c7a088$612b90f0$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:18:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <002101c7a088$612b90f0$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> (Albert E. Sten-Clanton's message of "Sun, 27 May 2007 13:56:40 -0400") Message-ID: <87bqg6rs6n.fsf_-_@cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 19:21:13 -0000 "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" writes: > that the speech went character by boring character as it read text > that came onto the screen: I had to use speakup's reading commands > to get the reading right. There's a very easy fix for this: renice 3 `ps -e |grep speechd-up |head -1 |cut -d' ' -f1` sets the niceness level of speechd-up to 3, and the spelling issue goes away. No need to compile your kernel without preemption of the big kernel lock, etc. It works for me, at any rate. YMMV. PS. I think there are issues with speechd-up, but I can't quite put my finger on them. speechd-up seems to be overly greedy when reading and speaking text from /dev/softsynth. -- Chris