Re: [orca-list] Orca, Gnome Speech extreme latency, stalling

[Zed Burnett <chophshiy live com>]

Will,

   The system is an HP tx2500z CTO, Turion Ultra 2.4GHz dual core, 4GB RAM, 100GB set aside for Intrepid, dual booting w/Vista.  I don't know exactly which Realtek codec is on this machine, but I had to add "options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=toshiba position_fix=1" to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base to make it work.  I got that from someone in an Ubuntu forum; I'm not sure if it's potentially relevant to the Orca behavior.  The chipset is the new AMD/ATI 780G (including graphics).  The BIOS on this machine has just been updated and that didn't seem to help (or hurt).

To see if it had any affect, I set the CPU throttle options to performance, the full 2.4GHz.  It doesn't seem to make any difference, Orca is on right now and only speeking occasionally.  When it does work, there is substantial latency in everything, menus, typing, etc, ranging from an extra eighth of a second or so to several seconds.  

If it were doing basic things reliably, like reading the applications menu, I would be testing it in Firefox, OpenOffice, Pidgin, core things for the typical desktop user.  

Thanks for your response.  Happy hunting and please do let me know if there is more I can do to help.

Zed

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> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:15:51 -0500
> From: William Walker Sun COM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca, Gnome Speech extreme latency, stalling
> To: chophshiy live com
> CC: orca-list gnome org
> 
> Hi Zed:
> 
> Welcome to the list!  Can you tell us more about the hardware you are
> using and the exact things you are trying to access?  We can try to
> reproduce the problem here (or let you know if this is a known problem).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Will
> 
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:12 -0600, Zed Burnett wrote:

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