how to speed up Speakup

how to speed up Speakup

[Scott Berry]

Hi there,

I am wondering how can I get Speakup to talk faster it is too slow.  Just
in case I am using kernel 2.4.22 with Speakup built in.

Re: how to speed up Speakup

[Thomas Stivers]

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On 11/26/03  2:44 PM +0000, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am wondering how can I get Speakup to talk faster it is too slow.  Just
> in case I am using kernel 2.4.22 with Speakup built in.

It is a bit different for different synthesizers, but you "echo" values
to /proc/speakup/rate. For example for my doubletalk I use the
following.

echo 9 >/proc/speakup/rate

That gives me the fastest speed for the doubletalk, but other synths
have different ranges of speeds, if you try to put incorect values in
there I think it will give you an informative error message. Make sure
not to for get the greater than symbol.

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Re: how to speed up Speakup

[Scott Berry]

Thanks for the help.  This is much better.

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Thomas
Stivers wrote:

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> On 11/26/03  2:44 PM +0000, Scott Berry wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am wondering how can I get Speakup to talk faster it is too slow.  Just
> > in case I am using kernel 2.4.22 with Speakup built in.
>
> It is a bit different for different synthesizers, but you "echo" values
> to /proc/speakup/rate. For example for my doubletalk I use the
> following.
>
> echo 9 >/proc/speakup/rate
>
> That gives me the fastest speed for the doubletalk, but other synths
> have different ranges of speeds, if you try to put incorect values in
> there I think it will give you an informative error message. Make sure
> not to for get the greater than symbol.
>
> - --
> Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
> carefully than others.
> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
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Re: how to speed up Speakup

[Hart Larry]

Hi Scott-and-All:  You should at least be able to on the fly change the rate
with I think insert 5 and insert 6.  Sure setting it in the options will insure
that it will start in your favorite way.
Hart

Re: how to speed up Speakup

[Alex Snow]

just cat /proc/speakup/rate, look at that number, then echo n 
>/proc/speakup/rate where n is a number greater then the one already 
there. do it in one number increments so you can find a good setting.
On 
Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:44:23PM +0000, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am wondering how can I get Speakup to talk faster it is too slow.  Just
> in case I am using kernel 2.4.22 with Speakup built in.
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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