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Re: [orca-list] Speeding up Espeak was Re: Short Jaunty alpha-3 impressions

Hi,
I have forgotten exactly what all of them mean.  The first one is the pauses between words and punctuation.  The other 2 have something to do with how hard vowels are spoken and how long they are sustaned, I think anyway.
HTH
Storm

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:49 -0500, Robert Spangler wrote: 
Can you define what each number means?


Storm Dragon wrote:
> Hi,
> If you need espeak to speak faster than the 99 setting with Orca, you 
> can try the following:
> Make sure you are running espeak 1.40 or higher.  You can check this by 
> typing:
> espeak --help > tmp.txt
> the first line of tmp.txt will have the version.
> You can get the latest version from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
> Download the source version.  It's the first package listed on the 
> downloads page.
> Extract it and use terminal to get into the src directory.
> On my system, I had problems getting it to install.  It wasn't detecting 
> lportaudio.  The fix for this problem is pretty simple.  Just type the 
> following line in terminal:
> sudo ln /usr/lib/libportaudio.so.0  /usr/lib/libportaudio.so
> To get espeak installed, while in the src directory, type the following:
> make
> It will do it's thing and when your prompt comes back up, type:
> sudo make install
> An important note, when I installed it, Orca changed languages on me.  I 
> had to open preferences and switch back.  It was a little tricky.  You 
> may be able to just close and re-open Orca to fix this problem.  I 
> didn't think of trying that at the time.  But if you aren't comfortable 
> guessing your way around the prefrences window, you may want to have a 
> sighted assistant near by when doing this.
> Now, for the speed boost.  In my case, I use en-us.  in the following 
> example, if you use a different language, just replace the en stuff with 
> your own language info:
> sudo vi /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/en/en-us
> This is the us english file.  At the very bottom of the file, on a new 
> line, type the following:
> fast_test 2 40 40
> You can of course change the numbers.  This is as fast as I can 
> comfortably understand it.  It's around 510 words per minute.
> If you lower the numbers it goes faster, if you increase them it slows down.
> Enjoy, and if there is a need for a more detailed guide let me know.
> Storm
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 06:52 -0500, Jacob Schmude wrote:
>> Hi
>> My impressions are actually the opposite. I've got all updates applied  
>> as of a few minutes ago, and for me the 9.04 alpha release is blazing  
>> fast--faster, in fact, than any other gnome installation I've used.  
>> There's almost no delay at all opening up menus or with orca  
>> navigation, no matter what speech synthesizer or speech library I'm  
>> using. Speaking of which, I'm not sure if there's a speech dispatcher  
>> fix in 9.04 or if something else fixed this, but my issues with speech  
>> dispatcher seem to be gone, something I'm very happy about. When I use  
>> espeak, I use rate 99 and that's still not fast enough for me, so it's  
>> nice not to have any other responsiveness issues. Even the livecd I  
>> used, which is a few days old (it was a daily build from last  
>> Saturday) was lightning fast.
>> The language screen spoke fine for me during the installer, as did the  
>> manual partitioner for the most part--I used that because I wanted to  
>> install onto an ext4 partition. The one quirk I found in the manual  
>> partitioner was that, when creating a partition, the filesystem combo  
>> box didn't read properly, with each choice being identified only as  
>> "filesystem." This was easily worked around by creating the partition,  
>> then editing the partition I'd just created, as the edit partition  
>> dialog speaks perfectly including the filesystem/partition type  
>> selector.
>> I haven't noticed the system becoming bogged down, or any system  
>> resource allocation problems either. In fact, the resource usage is  
>> less while running 9.04 than it is in 8.10 for me.
>> I would have expected a very different result, seeing as how I'm  
>> simply running it in a virtual machine with 512mb of ram and one  
>> processor. Perhaps you're having hardware driver issues? In  
>> particular, check your video driver and X configuration, as that can  
>> often cause a lot of lag if not configured quite right.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 06:32, Hammer Attila wrote:
>>
>> > Dear List!
>> >
>> > I tryed two day with Jaunty Alpha3 release, i would like writing my
>> > short impressions:
>> > Yesterday first, because espeak is not work nagively, I not want
>> > inserting manualy snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss
>> > modules and testing purpose I want makinfg different changes, I  
>> > making a
>> > custom live cd with trivial offficial accessibility changes with
>> > live.gnome.org/Orca page and following changes:
>> > 1. inserting the snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss modules with /etc/ 
>> > modules
>> > file.
>> > 2. Configuring default accessibility support to screen reader with
>> > following:
>> > When extracted the filesystem.squashfs file and chrooted the new  
>> > system,
>> > typing following commands:
>> > gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility true
>> > gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/applications/at/visual/startup  
>> > true
>> > I like this, because BeLin (similar release with Vinux) using this  
>> > method.
>> >
>> > I disabling pulse audio because lot of time my machine lost speech  
>> > Hardy
>> > and Intrepid. I using following documentation:
>> > http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/alsa-instead-of-pulseaudio-for-ubuntu-810-intrepid-a-non-destructive-way/
>> >
>> > Yesterday impressions:
>> > When booting the live cd, it is very fast. Because inserting snd-pcm- 
>> > oss
>> > module and snd-mixer-oss module, the sound is correct work my desktop
>> > machine, but my notebook the sound is not working because I not have
>> > sighted assistance yet. The login sound is not played, but the Orca
>> > screen reader is starting automaticaly and talking correct.
>> > I found following problems, please anybody confirm:
>> > 1. When typing any application with my keyboard, Espeak saying later  
>> > the
>> > typed character, such as 2 second later when I pressing a letter for
>> > example. When moving a menu (for example the applications menu),  
>> > Orca or
>> > espeak is very slow, wait 1,5 or two second before speaking. I using
>> > 70.0 speech rate, it is very fast. :-):-)
>> > The latenci is very disturb when I trying fastest moving the menues or
>> > dialog controls with official
>> > navigation methods.
>> > I have got a Creative Audigy LS sound card my desktop machine.
>> >
>> > For example in Hardy or Intrepid, Espeak doing a little latency, but  
>> > lot
>> > of slowest with Debian Lenny. If I working in Lenny, the typing is  
>> > very
>> > fast, the moving operations is bigger fastest. If I known right,  
>> > Debian
>> > using
>> > oldest gnome-speech version. Possible fixing this latenci problem and
>> > fastest the speech latenci?
>> >
>> > 2. When I launching Mozilla Firefox, the heading navigations is not
>> > speeching. For example when I pressing h key, not spokening the actual
>> > heading level. Only speeching xxx heading level when i pressing for
>> > example the where am I key.
>> >
>> > 3. When I trying install with 9.04, I founding following problemsafter
>> > running Ubiquity:
>> > - Language list is not spokening yet.
>> > - partitioner manual setting is not working, my desktop machine.
>> >
>> > This is yesterday result.
>> >
>> > On thuesday, I looked originaly 9.04 current dayly live cd (I manual
>> > loaded snd-mixer-oss and
>> > snd-pcm-oss modules) producing very slow speech latency.
>> > I looked two machines, my desktop pc and my notebook.
>> > For example when I typing very fast the apple word, the speech
>> > sinthesizer (Espeak) says this:
>> > a    p    l    e
>> > When speech sinthesizer beginning says the a letter, the apple word
>> > already wroted.
>> >
>> > Another problem:
>> > When Orca is not running, the system monitor application is displaying
>> > the cpu usage is 4%.
>> > When Orca is running, the system monitor displaying 28% or larger cpu
>> > usage. (When I launched firefox, first cpu showing 35%, second cpu
>> > showing 50% I think).
>> > I have got an Athlon64 X2 processor and 2 GB ram of my desktop  
>> > machine,
>> > i think it is not good result.
>> > In Debian Lenny, when Orca is running, the system monitor application
>> > showing 4% cpu usage, this is correct.
>> >
>> > I known, 9.04 is an alpha state, but if not happen drastical think, I
>> > hope it
>> > is very stable release in final date.
>> >
>> > I have got a question:
>> > This speech latency is an Orca, gnome-speech or Espeak problem? I  
>> > tryed
>> > installed latest trunk version with Jaunty, the problem is present,  
>> > but
>> > only Jaunty, Debian Lenny, Intrepid, Hardy not producing this  
>> > drastical
>> > latency.
>> >
>> > I waiting alpha-4 release, because I very like testing development
>> > versions.
>> >
>> > Attila
>> >
>> > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list
>> > Ubuntu-accessibility lists ubuntu com <mailto:Ubuntu-accessibility lists ubuntu com>
>> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
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