boosting responsiveness of accent pc

[Alex Snow]

that's weird, I don't notice any delay to speak of with my accent pc 
in an old pII/233. I also used one of these cards in a p/120 wtih 16mb 
of ram and didn't even notice a delay then. the only synths I've 
noticed any real delay with is external ones most notably the bns.
On 
Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 01:53:36PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> Will this hold  true for Artic NoteTakers acting as a synthesizer?
> They use the acntsa driver.
> Glenn
> 
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> From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid at sunset.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: boosting responsiveness of accent pc
> 
> 
> I have noticed the delay with the Accent PC (internal ISA card) on my
> old Pentium 133 MHZ system running Slackware (currently version 10.0),
> but have not found it to be objectionable.  This is the only speech
> synthesizer I have run on Linux though, so perhaps I am simply used to
> it???  I actually had to play around with the sample line of text you
> provided (shortening it and adding additional text to it) to really
> notice the delay--the delay does seem to get longer with longer lines
> of text here as well.  HTH, and have a _great_ day.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:06:02PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> > Hi all.
> > 
> > Is it just me, or is the accent pc sluggish when used with speakup?
> > What I mean is the longer the string the accent pc has to speak, the
> > more of a delay there is before the string is spoken. Here is an
> > illustration of what I'm talking about.
> > 
> > Say for example you type the string:
> > 
> > "This is a rather longish test sentence."
> > 
> > on a blank line without the quotes. If you then use the numpad-8 key to
> > read the line with speakup, there is a delay of almost one second
> > between when the read line key is pressed, and when the accent pc
> > actually starts to speak the sentence. On the other hand, if I type
> > the same phrase on a blank line using a doubletalk pc, the doubletalk
> > pc speaks the phrase immediately when the read line key is pressed.
> > 
> > I suspect, though am not positive, that this is a speakup-specific
> > issue, since I don't have this delay when using window-eyes or provox
> > with the accent pc. This behavior holds true for speakup 1.5, and cvs
> > speakup, so this is not something that was introduced recently. In
> > fact, I have noticed this issue since I got my accent pc about a year
> > and a half ago, but didn't comment on it until now, since I couldn't
> > think of a clear way to describe the problem. 
> > 
> > I do remember that playing with delay_time and jiffy_delta was
> > suggested on here before to improve synth responsiveness, however, as
> > I recall, this suggestion was made only if one uses the stock
> > redhat/fedora kernel, and I am using my own kernel build from the
> > vanilla kernel.org source tarball.
> > 
> > Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
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