From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 1cust100.tnt1.lax7.da.uu.net ([67.193.227.100] helo=toccata.grg.afb.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16o2nT-000173-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:40:03 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.grg.afb.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2LDaTZ03010 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:36:30 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.grg.afb.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 05:36:29 -0800 (PST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.grg.afb.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Speakup problem. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Kirk: Unless this is happening very frequently, I would think it's easy enought just to do the occasional reset. I would hate to sacrifice responsivness. Thomas: Why not build an alias in your .bash_profile that resets the defaults you like? I do this with my Litetalk which is in need of some help from a soldering iron. When it loses its mind I simply power cycle and give it my single char alias command. I used the letter s, but I tell you that mainly to suggest it can be a very short, and therefore quick, command. On 21 Mar 2002, Kirk Reiser wrote: > What sometimes happens particularly with external synths is that that > speakup is saying an uppercase character when you hit an alt/control > and the pitch doesn't get set back down. The simplest way to get it > back down is to move with say char onto an uppercase character and > that will set it correctly. We tried to improve responce a while back > by reducing the number of control characters we send out for each > character typed. It significantly improves the Dectalk Express > responce time. I may have to go back to the way we used to do it. > > Kirk > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org