From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp2.commspeed.net ([216.19.2.41]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HHMAI-0003nu-00 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:35:26 -0500 Received: (qmail 67365 invoked by uid 1034); 14 Feb 2007 15:34:54 -0000 Received: from web1.commspeed.net (HELO webmail.commspeed.net) (216.19.2.110) by smtp2.commspeed.net with SMTP; 14 Feb 2007 15:34:54 -0000 Received: from 159.87.119.181 (SquirrelMail authenticated user keithint38@commspeed.net) by webmail.commspeed.net with HTTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:34:54 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <8874.159.87.119.181.1171467294.squirrel@webmail.commspeed.net> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:34:54 -0700 (MST) Subject: Regarding chucks post--on ESpeak, or anyone else From: keithint38@commspeed.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal 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: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:35:26 -0000 I cannot check this problem at this time. Sinse I am at school, I am not at my Linux box. SSH access is blocked-and I need to be available localy. First: I am running: Gentoo Linux AMD 64, kernel 2.6.19, I believe that ESpeak is 0.18 or whatever. I have described the best way to produce this. I can also add that one way to do it is to download the modified version of GRML 0.8 (a 32-bit OS) and to just rappidly start typing, it contains ESpeak, and some small modifications to Speech-Dispatcher. One of these includes something where Speech-Dispatcher would send blank lines at the synthesizer. This has been disabled, along with the Preempt-the-big-kernel-lock. The kernel is SMP. Don't worry. I h ave a script, Speech does come back. If I type: "Speak "Text"" (Without the first quotes) the Speak "Text" will make Espeak speak "Text" Or: Speak "Kirk is so coool!" will echo "Kirk is so cooool!" So, perhaps it's with speechd-up? Also: Another problem: Newer versions of Speechd-up appear not to speak the punctuation characters on the keyboared. This includes period, slash, etc. BTW..Tyler Spivey, have y ou managed to debug this at all in VMWare? Regards, --Keith