Re: Gnopernicus on RH9 - very fast speech

["Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, Rich.
First, off I might make a guess as to why  your desktop is
operating so slow, and very porely. I am running a Mandrake 9.2 system with
Gnome 2.4.0 on a 2.0 GHZ processor with none of the problems you described
below. I suspect processor power/speed greatly effects how quickly you can
move to controls on the desktop. so it really isn't the gnome technology,
but that your system doesn't have enough processing power to proform the
requested actions quickly enough. That's my guess anyway.
Second, the layer 8 on the keypad doesn't set individual voices, but sets
global values. I suspect everything is out of sink do to the fact  that you
attempted to set the individual voices rate etc from with in gnopernicus
without  forcing the changes to take effect on other voices which you have
to do to get global voice changes.
One possible solution is to delete your .gnome2 directory, and reconfigure
gnopernicus from scratch.
Another possibility is to go back into the gnopernicus speech preferences
and fix the voices that were out of sink with the other voices.
Sadly, the gnome documentation doesn't go into much indepth on issues like
this, and you really need to know how to under stand how to do global voice
changes etc in order to avoid having every voice speaking different rates
etc.
One of the things I do right off the bat is  when gnopernicus starts for the
first time I go to kpd layer-8 and set the voice settings globally to make
it usable.
I rarely need to set the voices in the preferences unless i am changing to a
different speech synth, or wishing to have a different voice pop up at a
specific time etc.
Hth.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Gnopernicus on RH9 - very fast speech


> OK, I've got things slowed down by using the numpad... I've finally heard
my
> first intelligible utterance from gnopernicus! Awesome...
>
> Now, I'm going to try some other synthesizer. My configuratin is very very
> slow. I'm running on a 500MHZ intel machine with freeTTS, and it takes
about
> half to three quarters of a second from the time I press a key to the time
I
> start getting feedback. When I click a button, say to open preferences, it
> takes about 3 seconds for the whole set of utterences "creating window,
> switching..., read focused control" to happen. Very very frustrating. I
can
> only imagine how slow it must be to actually do anything real!!
>
> How can I logout from the desktop with the keyboard? The only choice I
have
> now is to reboot from an ssh session ...
>
>
> Thanx for reading all my stupid questions!
>
>                     Rich
>
>
> The keys don't seem to work very well - i.e., the "default" rate pitch and
> volumes are way out of line and the settings as they are being changed
will
> suddenly change to some other value as I fiddle with other settings. When
I
> then switch out of this mode with the numlock key, the voice suddenly
> changes again.  I assume this is because different voices are used to
speak
> different 'arts of the gui, but its unclear how these speech settings
mapped
> to layer 8 of the numpad relate to each voice.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
> To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:55 PM
> Subject: Gnopernicus on RH9 - very fast speech
>
>
> I finally managed to compile gnome-speech with freeTTS.
>
> The test-speech program works, and the voice sounds fine. However, when I
> run gnopernicus, either via the console with srcore or from the gui,
speech
> is very fast (unintelligible), and a sighted friend fiddling with the
speech
> preferences dialog couldn't seem to slow things down. There didn't seem to
> be a master rate; he had to change the rates within each voice and see if
it
> had an effect.
>
> Any idea what's going on? I've enabled the propper gconf2 key and
recompiled
> gnome-speech several times.
>
> So close, but yet so far!!!
>
>                     Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Mulcahy" <
> Marc Mulcahy Sun COM>
>
> To: "Saqib Shaikh" <
> S Shaikh sussex ac uk>
>
> Cc: <
> gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
>
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Gnopernicus Fedora and Festival
>
> Saqib,
>
> for some reason, it sounds like your Gnopernicus came up with no support
> enabled.  You need to go into the startup preferences dialog and select
> speech.  the buttons in the preferences dialog will then be available.
>
> Marc
>
> On
> Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
>
> > HI
> >
> > I recently installed Fedora.  I selected to have the Gnome desktop
option
> > installed.
> >
> > Surprisingly, I found that Gnopernicus and Gnome-speech were not
> installed,
> > despite these being part of Gnome 2.4 - oh well.
> >
> > So, I installed the following packages in this order:
> > Gnome-speech-devel
> > Gnome-speech
> > Gnopernicus
> >
> > Then, I installed Festival from the CDs, as it wasn't installed by
> default.
> > I installed the following packages:
> > Festival-devel
> > Festival
> >
> > I tested Festival and it works (indicating that my sound card also
works).
> >
> > Now when I run Gnopernicus there is no speech.  Just the main window
> > appearing.  When I click on preferences, all the buttons are grayed out
> > (e.g. Speech, Braille, etc).  How do I make Gnopernicus recognise
Festival
> > and use it to talk?  So near yet so far!
> >
> > I should mention that all this was done by a sighted friend.
> >
> > Thanks, Saqib
> >
> >
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