spelling was Re: GRML swspeak?

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

Yes, you have to type

grml swspeak

a few seconds after the CD starts spinning for the boot-up, and type

swspeak

after booting is finished.  I don't know the reason it works that way.

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Gawronski" <nick at nickgawronski.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: spelling was Re: GRML swspeak?


> Hi, Using grml with swspeak is it required to use when booting grml
> swspeak then after it boots running swspeak again to start speech?  Why
> not just have speech start automatically when using the grml swspeak
> option?  If I boot grml with no options then after booting at the prompt
> run swspeak will speech start?On Sun, 27 May 2007, Albert E. Sten-Clanton
> wrote:
> 
> > 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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