lag with software speech

[Alex Snow]

Hi,

I've been playing a lot with software speech lately, both with speakup 
and speech-dispatcher and orca and gnome-speech, all using espeak.  I 
notice a slight lag with speech, not something that makes it unuseable, 
just a little annoying.  The machine I'm testing on should be fast 
enough to handle this, intel core duo at 1.66ghz with 512mb of ram/512 
of swap...anyone know where I should look to try to speed things up a 
bit?

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