Re: [orca-list] Making espeak go faster

["William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209" <wacker octothorp org>]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Luke Yelavich wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 06:33:50PM EST, Garrett Klein wrote:
> > 1. Open a gnome-terminal
> > 2. Type the following
> > echo <control-v> <control-a>390S <enter>
> > This will get you faster speech with espeak under gnome-speech for the
> > duration of your orca session.
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> Note that this shouldn't be needed for Ubuntu users, as the Ubuntu gnome-speech package has been patched to 
> make use of espeak's fastest rate. This is not in upstream gnome-speech yet, but will be very shortly. If you 
> built gnome-speech from source for Ubuntu, please note that unless you used the source Ubuntu package, you 
> likely do not have the espeak driver patched to use espeak's fastest rate.

Hi, Luke.  If you point me to the patch, I'll rebuild gnome-speech and 
update the Speakup Modified Fedora disks with it.

          Thanks.

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          Bill in Denver