jerky speech from doubletalk?

[Charles Crawford]

Huh?  I just ordered a Pentium 4 with 2.5 gigahertz processing from 
pololinux. So am I going to be looking at a real speeech problem?  I use a 
Dectalk express.

-- Chrlie.
   At 10:05 AM 8/28/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Aaron,
>
>      You nailed the problem.  The i386 kernel would fix it, but there's an
>easier way.  Speakup lets you adjust the timing parameters, so it's
>possible to go into the /proc/speakup/<synth> directory and use echo or cp
>to set the values for the 512Hz kernel.  I use settings similar to these.
>jiffy_delta=25 and delay_time=100.
>I use an Audapter, but I tried to adjust the values based on the litetalk
>defaults.  The trigger_time value is radically different between the
>Audapter and Litetalk.  I didn't change mine, but it's possible that you
>might need to.
>      It should be pointed out that we're messing with timers actually in
>the kernel and if they get too far out of whack, there might be
>consequences such as file corruption.  Proceed with extreme caution.
>
>           HTH.
>--
>
>           Bill in Denver
>
>
>On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Aaron Howell wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I've just gotten a doubletalk lt for work (I assume its the latest rom 
> etc since it only came into the country from rc systems about 3 weeks ago.
> > I performed an install of the new redhat beta (7.3.94) which went off 
> without a hitch using speakup off the standard redhat image.
> > The problems started after I rebooted the machine.
> > I've set the rate to 6 and the punctuation level to 3 but not changed 
> anything else.
> > Now, my speech has gotten incredibly jerky.
> > I wonder if this is a doubletalk problem, a speakup problem, or related 
> to the hz changes in the i686 kernel?
> > The best impression I can give of it is
> > left bracket, root, at hen, tilde dollar, right bracket.
> > its like, there's a pause, between, different words, in the sentence.
> > Can I fix this somehow, or should I try the i386 kernel?
> > Any help much apreciated.
> > Rgards
> > Aaron
> >
> >
>
>
>
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