spelling was Re: GRML swspeak?

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Greetings!

I booted up with the grml 1.0 Cd, using the "grml swspeak" command.  After that and running the swspeak command again, I tried

renice 3 `ps -e |grep speechd-up |head -1 |cut -d' ' -f1`

as you suggested.  I got a short error/usage message.  I then retried the command, after replacing each ` with ".  I got the message that the old priority of 0 was changed to 3.  I also tried -12.  There was no change in the way the software speech read.  Could I have missed something here?

Thanks!

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C.M. Brannon" <cmbrannon at cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 3:18 PM
Subject: spelling was Re: GRML swspeak?


> "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net> writes:
> 
> > that the speech went character by boring character as it read text
> > that came onto the screen: I had to use speakup's reading commands
> > to get the reading right.
> 
> There's a very easy fix for this:
> renice 3 `ps -e |grep speechd-up |head -1 |cut -d' ' -f1`
> sets the niceness level of speechd-up to 3, and the spelling issue
> goes away.  No need to compile your kernel without preemption of the
> big kernel lock, etc.
> It works for me, at any rate.  YMMV.
> 
> PS. I think there are issues with speechd-up, but I can't quite put my
> finger on them.  speechd-up seems to be overly greedy when reading and
> speaking text from /dev/softsynth.
> 
> -- Chris
> 
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