Speakup on an Echo

[hank smith]

is that the echo external you are using or the isa card?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Klein" <kleins at iquest.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup on an Echo


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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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