* Speakup chokes on long resitations.
@ Dan Murphy
` Gregory Nowak
` (2 more replies)
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From: Dan Murphy @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup list
Hi list.
I have been having this little problem with speakup or something for
some time now, but I wasn't sure if it was a memory problem or what.
I am using a doubletalk PC on both my machines which are both running
Slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.4.5. If I have speakup read a long
passage of text, it will eventually choke, that is, the synthesizer
will not respond to ctrl or anything to silence it, and when it
finally does go silent, everything is frozen and I have to do an
ungraceful reboot.
I usually run Speakup with key_echo set to 0 since that's the way I
like it, but I'm not even sure that Speakup is causing the problem.
Any ideas would be helpful since there are times when I can't silence
the speech in time and I don't know enough Linux to look at what to
check.
thanks.
Dan Murphy
mailto:mweeby@nycap.rr.com
http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby
Let us not look back in anger or forward
in fear, but around us in awareness.
-- James Thurber
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Speakup chokes on long resitations Dan Murphy
@ ` Gregory Nowak
` Kirk Wood
` Georgina
` Geoff Shang
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Sounds like a hardware problem to me even though it happens on both machines (I'm assuming this is the case).
I've got a doubletalk pc here with slackware 8.0 and kernel 2.4.17 and latest cvs speakup, and never experienced this during long reading sesions.
Greg
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:57:47PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Hi list.
> I have been having this little problem with speakup or something for
> some time now, but I wasn't sure if it was a memory problem or what.
> I am using a doubletalk PC on both my machines which are both running
> Slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.4.5. If I have speakup read a long
> passage of text, it will eventually choke, that is, the synthesizer
> will not respond to ctrl or anything to silence it, and when it
> finally does go silent, everything is frozen and I have to do an
> ungraceful reboot.
> I usually run Speakup with key_echo set to 0 since that's the way I
> like it, but I'm not even sure that Speakup is causing the problem.
> Any ideas would be helpful since there are times when I can't silence
> the speech in time and I don't know enough Linux to look at what to
> check.
> thanks.
>
>
> Dan Murphy
> mailto:mweeby@nycap.rr.com
> http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby
> Let us not look back in anger or forward
> in fear, but around us in awareness.
> -- James Thurber
>
>
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Speakup chokes on long resitations Dan Murphy
` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Georgina
` Geoff Shang
2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Georgina @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi
This sounds like when I'd compiled a kernel which caused a lot of material for
the boot up process, if I didn't hit the mute key, the system would hang.
I just considered that I'd sent too much material for the buffer to cope with
so it refused to accept any more and cause it to hang. Its probably complete
nonsense but it never hung if I muted the speech during boot up. It also
happens when Slackware is installing all the selected packages without
prompting.
Gena
>Hi list.
>I have been having this little problem with speakup or something for
>some time now, but I wasn't sure if it was a memory problem or what.
>I am using a doubletalk PC on both my machines which are both running
>Slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.4.5. If I have speakup read a long
>passage of text, it will eventually choke, that is, the synthesizer
>will not respond to ctrl or anything to silence it, and when it
>finally does go silent, everything is frozen and I have to do an
>ungraceful reboot.
>I usually run Speakup with key_echo set to 0 since that's the way I
>like it, but I'm not even sure that Speakup is causing the problem.
>Any ideas would be helpful since there are times when I can't silence
>the speech in time and I don't know enough Linux to look at what to
>check.
>thanks.
>
>
>Dan Murphy
>mailto:mweeby@nycap.rr.com
>http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby
>Let us not look back in anger or forward
>in fear, but around us in awareness.
> -- James Thurber
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Speakup mailing list
>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Speakup chokes on long resitations Dan Murphy
` Gregory Nowak
` Georgina
@ ` Geoff Shang
` Dan Murphy
2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup list
Hi:
First off, how long is long, Dan? Are you sure that speakup is crashing,
or is it just not talking to your synth? sometimes a synth can get into a
state where it's not communicating with speakup properly. If this happens,
pressing insert-enter on the keypad should reinitialise the synth and get
you speech back. If speakup is really dead then this is a serious bug and
we want to know about it.
for the record, speakup should be able to cope with speaking large volumes
of text and most certainly shouldn't cause a crash of any sort.
Geoff.
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` Geoff Shang
@ ` Dan Murphy
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From: Dan Murphy @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup list
Well I'm not sure that it is speakup that's crashing, but, for instance,
if you wwere unpacking a tarball with the -v option, and all the file
names come spilling out, unless you hit keypad enter or ctrl quickly, the
system chokes, but I have yet to try that with speakup turned off.
thanks for the suggestion about insert+enter and I'll try that.
Dan Murphy
mailto:mweeby@nycap.rr.com
http://home.nycap.rr.com/mweeby
Let us not look back in anger or forward
in fear, but around us in awareness.
-- James Thurber
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@ ` Tony Baechler
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Tony Baechler @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi. This might not be a Speakup problem at all. This same thing used to
happen to me daily when I used a Doubletalk Lt in DOS. I especially
noticed it when I was trying to listen to a long text file. After about 30
screens of text it would just die. I do not know what to suggest except
that I think it is a buffering problem. In other words, the internal
hardware synth buffer gets too full so it just stops. You might try
turning it off and/or reseting it but I am not sure if you can do that with
an internal. There might be a command to flush or change the buffer size
but I am not aware of it. If you have the money, I would suggest getting a
different synthesizer.
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