Re: speech rate and key skipping problem

["Shaji Mathew" <smats@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear friends,
My ViaVoiceTTK samples are  read with fast speech rate
(too fast to understand)
After much try I figure out that (I'm not an expert)
speech rate problem is with ViaVoice and nothing to do with Emacspeak!,
 also if I reduce the speech rate from Emacspeak ( to 2 or three counts)
I could hear it reading all keys.

Now, how to make my sound card  defaulting to mono?

if sound card is the problem, how I'm going to make sure
it is compatible to all these features required to install Emacspeak

Does this mean built in soundcards are not recommended
these days sound feature is built in with mother boards
what other alternatives or brand is recommended?

is there another way to reduce the speech rate?

I'm  new to Linux, Flite and things
somebody please help me

Thanks,
Shaji Mathew



----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaji Mathew" <smats@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:34 AM
Subject: speech rate and key skipping problem


> Dear friends,
> I had installed and was using Emacspeak on RedHat 7.1
> on a system having "creative " sound card
> I was so happy with Emacspeak
> that  I wanted  to share this happiness with a friend of mine
>
> For this  friend, I tried to install Emacspeak
> on a system with built in sound card, Linux Redhat 7.2
> and ViaVoice TTS.
> Testing ./runcmdlinespeak gives a fast rated response
> I mean, it talks too quick to understand
> The same fast speech rate  for "tcl outloud"  test also (at
> /emacspeak/servers )
> The same thing happens after installing Emacspeak
> it talks too fast,
>  reducing the speech rate from Emacspeak couldn't help much
>
> also Emacspeak skip reading some keys  (like a, d etc )
> but get displayed on the screen
> but could read together as a word
> ( we tried even changing the keyboard)
>
> lesstif and tcl is ok
>
> Is this the problem with
> stdiosynth?
> Viavoice?
> Emacspeak (we've tried both tar and rpm installation)?
> Soundcard?
> Redhat version (7.2)?
> or any other settings ?
> We are not Linux experts
> could somebody please help us?.
>
>
> Thank you,
> S.Mathew
>
>
>
>
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