Speakup on an Echo

[Garrett Klein]

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Hello all,

	Just replying to confirm that this did in fact happen. I connected a patch cable to the headphone jack of the echo PC and connected the other end to the line-in on my minidisc recorder. The reason for the loudness is that the amp is rather sensative.

	I found the following querks/differences of behavior when using the echo with the bns driver.
1. The echo's buffer is too small to handle all text sent (either that or it's just a piece3 of crap and can't handle things with multiple periods), resulting in a 5-second pause sometimes. For example: linux 2.6.11... five second pause... 7
Last login:... five-second pause... bla bla bla bla.
2. The maximum pitch of a BNS is 17 while the echo can go up to 100. I haven't figured out where the maximum allowable pitch for a synthesizer is defined, so I haven't modified the driver yet.
3. Interrupting speech can be a bit... interesting. I find that numpad enter doesn't always shut it up right away (buffer issues maybe?), but things such as cursor movement do immediately make the echo stop what it was doing and speak the new text.

	Hope at least someone finds this interesting. If anyone has some suggestions for fixing the pause/buffer issue, don't hesitate to send them to kleins at iquest.net. I'll be able to test them in August when I go back to school.

Garrett

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:28:14PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. I recently got a hold of a recording that Garrett Klein did of 
> his encounter with the PC version of an Echo. He managed to get it 
> working with Speakup using the BNS driver. I'm not sure how interested 
> people would be in this, however yesterday I uploaded 
> speakup_on_an_echo2.mp3. That was the entire file. However, 
> speakup_on_an_echo.mp3 is only a bit of the file since my connection 
> dropped and I had to restart the upload process. I checked to see if 
> speakup_on_an_echo2.mp3 had been moved to the goodies directory, however 
> I didn't see it. Should I re-upload the whole file to /pub/incoming? I 
> will say that the file right now is a little loud, however if there is 
> substancial interest for the re-upload I'll try again to turn down the 
> volume a bit.
> -- 
> How many chunks could checkchunk check if checkchunck could check chunks?
> -- Alan Cox
> 
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