Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[Sean McMahon]

I'm on a 2.4 kernel, 2.4.27 but that is great info if/when I upgrade to 2.6.  Is
there anything in the 2.4 series that may help with software speech?
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation


> 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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