Making flite more responsive and improving its pronounciation

[David Bruzos]

Hi Janina:
I made another posting explaining a fix that I found for the choppy speech problem.  It involves changing the priority of 
the speechd_up and speech-dispatcher programs.  On my laptop, it works very well, I get better speech than I ever have.   
Let me know if it works for you.

DB


On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:06:54PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> > phone: (519) 661-3061
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