Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[Janina Sajka]

Wow, a Pentium 90? Amazing that it runs at all!

May I say that I am unhappy with the lack of responsivness using
software speech with Speakup on a 1.13 Ghz machine? So, I can barely
grok a Pentium 90.

Sean McMahon writes:
> On my Pentium 90, there is a segnificant delay between what shows up on screen
> and when flite speaks it.  If there is a large chunk of text, there's a few
> second delay between different parts of that chunk.Does this problem exist on
> faster systems like a 400 P2 or something you would buy new today?  Can I
> controll this behavior on my system and if so how?
> Is there a way to change how flite pronounces words like a custome dictionary.
> For example I'd like it to say debian with a short e and say certain words as
> two seperate words.  If these customizations are possable, are they controlled
> in speakup, speechd_up, speech dispatcher or flite.
> Sean
> 
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