Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:45:18AM EST, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> I have noticed with the newer kernels 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 software
> speech is very disjointed almost like you only get a few letters or a
> portion of a word at a time.  This is do to a newly instituted kernel
> configuration option called something like Big Kernel Lock
> Preempting.  Hmmm, let me go look it up exactly: CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL
> should be set to no.  The menu choice which is under processor
> features looks like: Preempt The Big Kernel Lock.  You would only set
> this to no if you are using software speech because in most cases it
> is wise to have it on.

I am running a speakup modified Ubuntu 2.6.10 kernel here, and 
according to my kernel config, that option doesn't even exist. Hoewver I 
still experience what you have described with DecTalk. Sometimes when 
displaying a fresh page of an email for example, only a couple of 
letters are read out at a time. However, it is not hard to work around, 
and doesn't really bother me. I am running a development version of the 
distro as it is. :)
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Luke

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