accent and speakup

[Scott Howell]

Adam,

Yes, I do use the Accentsa driverand it seems to work very nicely. The 
only thing I wish is I could crank the speed a bit more. Even setting 
the rate to nine by echo 1 >/proc/speakup/rate I don't get much more 
increase in rate. I've heard another person's Accent jabbering at great 
speeds. This holds true with my DoubleTalk PC and external. I know some 
like it slow, but I like it fast. I'm used to really speedy 
speech.<grin>
Actually the only other issue I have run into is when typing something 
like ls, it pauses a bit before speaking. I again don't know if this has 
anything to do with the firmware of the synth and not sure how to 
determine what that is, but maybe someone has some thoughts on these 
issues.

Thanks everyone who has given me suggestions thus far. This is a nice 
speech card for the money and having the option to run it as an internal 
or external is nice. I just might try to get another.<grin>

Scott


On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:18:27AM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote:
> Using Speakup review commands with the synth turned off is what I meant by
> pressing keys.  Sorry I didn't make that more clear.  It is also quite a
> kludge IMHO.  At the time I originally posted about this issue with an
> Accent SA, somebody mentioned a script that would reset all synth values
> on demand.  I never got around to playing with it to see if it would
> reinitialize the Accent SA after it had been turned off, and now that I
> have the Accent PC and am using it directly, I don't need it.  By the way,
> when using the Accent PC as a serial synthesizer, do you use the Accent SA
> driver in Speakup?