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Incomplete Sentences
This is not an emacspeak problem --it's probably a problem
with your sound card.
Also, please do not send me mail directly about emacspeak
--answering you in private helps only you and no one else.
Wish you luck helping your friend--
>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Gordon <pcgordon@mediaone.net> writes:
Patrick> Raman, I have been trying for several week to
Patrick> make emacspeak functional for a blind friend of
Patrick> mine with the hope that it will open up
Patrick> Internet for her, but I seem to have hit a
Patrick> wall. I can't get emacspeak to speak more than
Patrick> a few words in a sentence before slowing to an
Patrick> incoherent crawl. For example, in the sentence:
Patrick> "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
Patrick> it speaks just the first three words normally
Patrick> and then I can hear only brief snippets of each
Patrick> remaining word as it continues very slowly
Patrick> through the rest of the line. I can move the
Patrick> cursor through the text word by word with no
Patrick> problem, it just cannot handle moving by
Patrick> multiple words or sentences. From the
Patrick> twenty-thousand feet level, It seems as though
Patrick> the output buffer just is not big enough. Do
Patrick> you have any ideas or suggestions on this? I
Patrick> have posed the problem to the listserv group,
Patrick> but to no avail. I have also posted the
Patrick> problem on linux newsgroups and got no respones
Patrick> whatsoever.
Patrick> My system is a 333Mz 128MB Dell Latitude CPt
Patrick> running RH Linux 7.2. I've installed Emacs 21,
Patrick> Emacspeak 15.0, and IBM's Text-To-Speech
Patrick> product ViaVoice following the installation
Patrick> instructions at
Patrick> http://www.redhat.com/services/techsupport/accessibility/s1-access-install.h
Patrick> tml.
Patrick> Patrick
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Best Regards,
--raman
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