Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[Janina Sajka]

Interesting, Kirk, because what I get is exactly as you describe. For
example, in my home directory, I often hear my name in my prompt as:

ja 
ni
n
a

That's pretty choppy.

Unfortunately, it seems Fedora leaves this variable off, as you suggest
for software speech. I'm running a 2.6.10 kernel, and the only "preempt"
cvariable in the entire config is:

CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set


Kirk Reiser writes:
> I am going to make a suggestion which may help your chopiness and may
> not.  The reason I say may not is because I don't understand all the
> facts from what you folks are talking about.
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you check your configuration and this is on which is the default
> then when you turn it off you should have significantly better
> software speech output quality at least.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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> 
> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
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