Fragmented speech with speakup and apollo

Fragmented speech with speakup and apollo

[Bue Vester-Andersen]

Hi,

I am using Speakup with redhat 8.0 and Apollo. However, the speech gets very
fragmented. It sounds like some buffer that can only have 20 characters at a
time. Is there any way that I can make the speech more fluent?

Hope somebody can help me on this one.

Best regards
Bue Vester-Andersen

Re: Fragmented speech with speakup and apollo

[Kirk Reiser]

Hi Bue:  That can happen from a couple of situations.  I am not sure
about the ins-and-outs of Redhat 8.0 because Bill Acker takes care of
our Redhat distribution.  I suspect he'll have something to say on
your problem as well.  Are you using a speakup redhat kernel out of
the box?  In later kernels you can see the behaviour you're indicating
because of a processor greater than a 686 of some ilk.  If that
happens to be the problem and I'm not convinced it is you can get
around it by adjusting delay_time and jiffy_delta.  The defaults for
those values at the standard 100hz interrupt frequency is
delay_time=500 and jiffy_delta=5.  If you are running 1000hz jiffies
then you need to increase jiffy_delta=50.

Good luck and let us know.
  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

RE: Fragmented speech with speakup and apollo

[Bue Vester-Andersen]

Hi Kirk,

Thanks for the help. I am using Speakup out of the Red hat 8.0 box. The
options you mentionare they in the kernel or in speakup? where can I change
them?

Regards
Bue

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirk Reiser [mailto:kirk@braille.uwo.ca]
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:34
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Fragmented speech with speakup and apollo


Hi Bue:  That can happen from a couple of situations.  I am not sure
about the ins-and-outs of Redhat 8.0 because Bill Acker takes care of
our Redhat distribution.  I suspect he'll have something to say on
your problem as well.  Are you using a speakup redhat kernel out of
the box?  In later kernels you can see the behaviour you're indicating
because of a processor greater than a 686 of some ilk.  If that
happens to be the problem and I'm not convinced it is you can get
around it by adjusting delay_time and jiffy_delta.  The defaults for
those values at the standard 100hz interrupt frequency is
delay_time=500 and jiffy_delta=5.  If you are running 1000hz jiffies
then you need to increase jiffy_delta=50.

Good luck and let us know.
  Kirk

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

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Re: Fragmented speech with speakup and apollo

[Kirk Reiser]

Woops, sorry about that, I meant to show you, /proc/speakup/apolo2 or
something like that.

  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061