Speakout Users

Speakout Users

[Steve Holmes]

I have a question concerning the recent CVS version of Speakup and use
of the Speakout synth.  I only know of John to be another user of it
but I am wondering if anyone else has had trouble with the tone
parameter?  I found one issue in the speakup_spkout.c module where the
tone range is defined.  John, what is the letter equivelant you try to
use with speakout? I've usually used 'J'.  From what I see so far, the
base value appears to be off by four positions.  It should be 65 and
not 61.  Though that doesn't explain why digits above 4 didn't work
for me yesterday.  I will mess with this some more when I get home
tonight  Since I'm still suffering on a windows box here at work
talking over an SSH line to mutt.
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Re: Speakout Users

[Igor Gueths]

Speaking of bugs, is the problem re-initializing the dectalk driver fixed?
I.e., are the punctuation delays properly reset after the driver wakes up
along with Speakup?

May you code in the power of the source,
may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I have a question concerning the recent CVS version of Speakup and use
> of the Speakout synth.  I only know of John to be another user of it
> but I am wondering if anyone else has had trouble with the tone
> parameter?  I found one issue in the speakup_spkout.c module where the
> tone range is defined.  John, what is the letter equivelant you try to
> use with speakout? I've usually used 'J'.  From what I see so far, the
> base value appears to be off by four positions.  It should be 65 and
> not 61.  Though that doesn't explain why digits above 4 didn't work
> for me yesterday.  I will mess with this some more when I get home
> tonight  Since I'm still suffering on a windows box here at work
> talking over an SSH line to mutt.
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Re: Speakout Users

[Lorenzo Prince]

The Dectalk bug seems to be fixed.  I played around with it somewhat, and
unloaded and reloaded the dectalk module, and also unplugged the dectalk
from my system then plugged it in again.  I didn't have any problem with
the delay.  The only thing that kinda bugs me a little is that the pitch
is not initialized to the same value as the value in
/proc/speakup/caps_stop, but I can fix that simply by changing the pitch
value in the source code.

Lorenzo

I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
high grade for such a design :-)
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Re: Speakout Users

[Igor Gueths]

Well in terms of the pitch and stuff, I have a script that will reset
those values. I was just curious as to whether the punctuation delay
problem had been fixed, which it seems to have been. I apologize for
catching on late in this, however is Speakup now officially modular? Bc I
heard references to spkout.o, and I assume it is an lkm?

May you code in the power of the source,
may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote:

> The Dectalk bug seems to be fixed.  I played around with it somewhat, and
> unloaded and reloaded the dectalk module, and also unplugged the dectalk
> from my system then plugged it in again.  I didn't have any problem with
> the delay.  The only thing that kinda bugs me a little is that the pitch
> is not initialized to the same value as the value in
> /proc/speakup/caps_stop, but I can fix that simply by changing the pitch
> value in the source code.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
> fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
> high grade for such a design :-)
> 	-- Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Speakout Users

[Steve Holmes]

Yes, synths can be module-loaded but in this case, spkout is my
default and I want it right at the beginning so I have it compiled
into the kernel.  When you run the configs with the new CVS stuff, you
get an additional choice for each synth - y/n/m like the other moduler
items in the kernel.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:27:40PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Well in terms of the pitch and stuff, I have a script that will reset
> those values. I was just curious as to whether the punctuation delay
> problem had been fixed, which it seems to have been. I apologize for
> catching on late in this, however is Speakup now officially modular? Bc I
> heard references to spkout.o, and I assume it is an lkm?
> 
> May you code in the power of the source,
> may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> 
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> 
> > The Dectalk bug seems to be fixed.  I played around with it somewhat, and
> > unloaded and reloaded the dectalk module, and also unplugged the dectalk
> > from my system then plugged it in again.  I didn't have any problem with
> > the delay.  The only thing that kinda bugs me a little is that the pitch
> > is not initialized to the same value as the value in
> > /proc/speakup/caps_stop, but I can fix that simply by changing the pitch
> > value in the source code.
> >
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
> > fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
> > high grade for such a design :-)
> > 	-- Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> 
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Re: Speakout Users

[Steve Holmes]

One final note to answer the original question I posed earlier today,
I found the error in the speakout module and changed it.  I sent Kirk
the module so hopefully he can include it in a later fix.  In the mean
time, just go into speakup_spkout.c and look for where the tone is
defined in the data structure near the bottom of the program.  Change
'61' to '65' which is equivelant to the ASCII letter "A".  This works
like a champ now.
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Re: Speakout Users

[Charles Crawford]

	I don't remember if you shared the script?

-- charlie.


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Well in terms of the pitch and stuff, I have a script that will reset
> those values. I was just curious as to whether the punctuation delay
> problem had been fixed, which it seems to have been. I apologize for
> catching on late in this, however is Speakup now officially modular? Bc I
> heard references to spkout.o, and I assume it is an lkm?
> 
> May you code in the power of the source,
> may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> 
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> 
> > The Dectalk bug seems to be fixed.  I played around with it somewhat, and
> > unloaded and reloaded the dectalk module, and also unplugged the dectalk
> > from my system then plugged it in again.  I didn't have any problem with
> > the delay.  The only thing that kinda bugs me a little is that the pitch
> > is not initialized to the same value as the value in
> > /proc/speakup/caps_stop, but I can fix that simply by changing the pitch
> > value in the source code.
> >
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
> > fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
> > high grade for such a design :-)
> > 	-- Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
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Re: Speakout Users

[Steve Holmes]

No script; This is the actual speakup driver for the speakout
synthesiser - speakup_spkout.c.  If you aren't using a speakout synth,
then this point is moot for you.  I just mention the fix in case some
other speakout user might be in a hury to fix the tone parameter problem.

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:30:56AM -0400, Charles Crawford wrote:
> 	I don't remember if you shared the script?
> 
> -- charlie.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Well in terms of the pitch and stuff, I have a script that will reset
> > those values. I was just curious as to whether the punctuation delay
> > problem had been fixed, which it seems to have been. I apologize for
> > catching on late in this, however is Speakup now officially modular? Bc I
> > heard references to spkout.o, and I assume it is an lkm?
> > 
> > May you code in the power of the source,
> > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> > 
> > > The Dectalk bug seems to be fixed.  I played around with it somewhat, and
> > > unloaded and reloaded the dectalk module, and also unplugged the dectalk
> > > from my system then plugged it in again.  I didn't have any problem with
> > > the delay.  The only thing that kinda bugs me a little is that the pitch
> > > is not initialized to the same value as the value in
> > > /proc/speakup/caps_stop, but I can fix that simply by changing the pitch
> > > value in the source code.
> > >
> > > Lorenzo
> > >
> > > I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
> > > fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
> > > high grade for such a design :-)
> > > 	-- Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > >
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
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