how to speed up Speakup

[Scott Berry]

Thanks for the help.  This is much better.

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Thomas
Stivers wrote:

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> On 11/26/03  2:44 PM +0000, Scott Berry wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am wondering how can I get Speakup to talk faster it is too slow.  Just
> > in case I am using kernel 2.4.22 with Speakup built in.
>
> It is a bit different for different synthesizers, but you "echo" values
> to /proc/speakup/rate. For example for my doubletalk I use the
> following.
>
> echo 9 >/proc/speakup/rate
>
> That gives me the fastest speed for the doubletalk, but other synths
> have different ranges of speeds, if you try to put incorect values in
> there I think it will give you an informative error message. Make sure
> not to for get the greater than symbol.
>
> - --
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> Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
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