Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[jim grimsby]

Hi, it might be your sound card.  I saw this with a program called
saytime saytime responded very well with one sound card but was very
choppy with another and it took much longer to speak with the second
card.  

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:15 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Making flite more responsive and improving its
pronounciation


Hi, Luke:

I've tried both flite and DEC Talk 4. I haven't bought 5 and don't plan
to. Response is the same. The speech is extremely choppy so that I'm
only comfortable hearing it while reviewing the screen.

Last year I had a Thinkpad T30 which was much better. So, I don't
understand where the breakdown is.

Luke Yelavich writes:
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:55:13AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Is that with flite/festival? As I am using DecTalk 5 on a
> ThinkPad R50, 1.4Ghz and it is very responsive.
> - -- 
> Luke

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