gnopernicus too fast

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Wed Dec 31 10:18:33 EST 2003


Yes, I agree about aumix. It's the only part of OSS that I like.

Tom and Esther Ward writes:
> From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
> 
> Hi, the speech rate is very easy to set.
> Simply do a numpad-0 and the letter 8 which should put you in layer 8.
> Pressing the numpad-4 and numpad-6 keys will slow down and speed up the
> speech rate.
> Also the numpad-1 and numpad-3 keys will lower and increase the volume of
> the speech.
> Note, becareful to check the state of your numlock key as this all depends
> if your numlock is on or off.
> As far as setting volume gnome has a very speech friendly volume controle
> located in the Gnome 2.4 main panel menu. It's location is a little
> different in different Linux distros, but it is in the multimedia group with
> the cd players etc...
> If you are more interressted in setting volume from the command line there
> is a nice program called aumix which will set your volume. For example:
> 
> aumix -v 100 100 -w 75 75 -m 0 0
> 
> Personally, I like the gnome volume controle better, but aumix is a pretty
> nice commandline tool as well.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juan Hernandez" <juan at labradorable.net>
> To: "speakup" <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:06 AM
> Subject: gnopernicus too fast
> 
> 
> Hello, I got gnome and gnopernicus running.  Now my problem is that the rate
> of speech is way to fast, also how do I turn up the volume of my sound card
> in console and in x?  Thanks
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