Speakup and Artic Transport?

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I'm currently using the transport on one of my systems and I've
experienced the same things you describe below.  One thing that I do to
insure detection of the transport all the time is add the line
speakup_ser=0 to force com1 on the box.  Another problem I have is that if
you do an ls -l the transport will not read the -r-x--x--x permissions
rather it will read dash dash dash and the same goes for any output with
dashes.  So reading man pages that tell you the dash paramters is rather
annoying.

Other than that it's pretty responsive using the transport driver instead
of the accent one.

Raul A. Gallegos
Email: raul at asmodean.net	icq#: 5283055
msn: ragallegos at hotmail.com	aim: raulagallegos


On Sat, 12 May 2001, Al Puzzuoli wrote:

> Hello,
> Just wondering what others have experienced when attempting to use an Artic
> Transport with speakup?  In order to make this synthesizer work, there are
> two options:
> The accent sa enabled kernels work nicely; However the speech quality is
> lacking.
> With the transport enabled kernels, speech quality is better; However, the
> synthesizer is not detected with any consistency at all.  When I run a
> transport boot disk, I sometimes need to reboot two or three times before
> the transport will initialize.
> i have experienced this behavior with both Slackware and RedHat boot disks.
>
> If given a choice, I would rather use the transport driver; However at
> present, it makes more sense to use the one for the Accent SA.  Is there
> anything I can do at this end to improve the situation, or is this an issue
> with the Transport driver itself?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> --Al
>
>
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