software speech for speakup

[Shaun Oliver]

I think I'd have to agree with both kirk and kerry on this 1.
While I enjoy the processing power of my pentium 200, I still feel as if a
processor that is at least 4-5 times faster if thatfor audio work. but, if
linux had a half decent audio multitracking program I'd probably not have
need for a pentium 3 or faster.
but having said that, I suggest that you go back to school and redo your
calculations. my pentium 200 is considerably faster than my 486 but not
that fast.
and as for software speech, the load that a decent software synth places
on a cpu ain't worth the clock cycles as far as I'm concerned. not on a
desk top anyway.


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On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> > How much is "a great deal" exactly..? software speech was possible on my
> > old 386 and even the most low-end pentium runs 50 times the speed of that!
> > tts takes only a tiny fraction of the CPU power required for speech
> > recongition or a winmodem.
> 
> While Kerry already pointed out some other simplifications, this is an
> very gross example. First, the math is wrong on. Few of us can afford a
> machine with the 1.2 GHz machine to get 50 times the clock speed of a 25
> MHz machine from the 486 days. But there are other factors like the fact
> that doubling the clock speed doesn't yeild a machine twice as fast. In
> fact, the high end machine today is not even 10 times as fast as the 486
> of yesteryear. This is not saying anything for those poor soulds who are
> still chugging along on old hardware since it is cheaper to keep what you
> have then buy new.
> 
> As for the amount of processor time eaten by the winmodem, I don't think
> it is eating nearly as much as you seem to think. Certainly downloading a
> file using a winmodem doesn't slow the system down as much as any software
> speech I have yet to see on the winblows machines. And yes, I have some
> experiance to see both.
> 
> Finally, perhaps you should also learn to hit the reply instead of reply
> to all.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> 
> Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.
> 
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