Speakup problem.

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Fri Mar 22 09:52:51 EST 2002


Well, I haven 't pegged mine to typing speed and I'm also a fast typist. 
Short of preventing such things from happening, I don't see how there 
could be anything that wouldn't disrupt what you're doing in order to 
effect a fix, though. I guess the best would be to reduce the number of 
keystrokes required.


On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Thomas D. Ward wrote:

> 
> Hi, I've actually created a perl script called reset which does that for 
> me. However, this happens so much that it is frustrating. I have to switch 
> out of what I am doing quite often to reset this problem.
> I was merely wondering if there was a way to fix the problem out right so 
> that it would rarely or never get locked in high pitch tso often. I seam 
> to notice it happens when I type fast.
> I am rated at 75 words a minute, and when I start getting up to full speed 
> speakup simply goes bonkers. Is there a way to change Speakup to echo 
> words rater than characters. perhaps that will reduce that problem.
> 
>  On Thu, 21 Mar 
> 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Kirk:
> > 
> > Unless this is happening very frequently, I would think it's easy enought
> > just to do the occasional reset. I would hate to sacrifice responsivness.
> > 
> > Thomas: Why not build an alias in your .bash_profile that resets the 
> > defaults you like? I do this with my Litetalk which is in need of some 
> > help from a soldering iron. When it loses its mind I simply power cycle 
> > and give it my single char alias command. I used the letter s, but I tell 
> > you that mainly to suggest it can be a very short, and therefore quick, 
> > command.
> > 
> > 
> > On 21 Mar 2002, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > 
> > > What sometimes happens particularly with external synths is that that
> > > speakup is saying an uppercase character when you hit an alt/control
> > > and the pitch doesn't get set back down.  The simplest way to get it
> > > back down is to move with say char onto an uppercase character and
> > > that will set it correctly.  We tried to improve responce a while back
> > > by reducing the number of control characters we send out for each
> > > character typed.  It significantly improves the Dectalk Express
> > > responce time.  I may have to go back to the way we used to do it.
> > > 
> > >   Kirk
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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