Speakup problem.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Same here, Jim - Never experienced it either, with my Doubletalk
Lite.

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
> Well, I guess I'm the odd man out.  I have never experienced this
> problem here at work (Doubletalk PC) or at home Doubletalk LT.
> Different ROM versions?
>      Jim
> 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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