> On Feb 10, 2022, at 6:36 PM, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > Frank Carmickle, le jeu. 10 févr. 2022 14:44:06 -0500, a ecrit: >>> On Feb 10, 2022, at 12:36 PM, Nick Gawronski <n...@nickgawronski.com> wrote: >>> Hi, I am often doing testing of software like Android building and find >>> that speech will stop during one of the processor heavy building processes. >>> What I would like to be able to do is to change espeakup and other >>> processes so they run with the highest niceness >> >> Are you experiencing choppy speech or does speech just pause for a time? >> >> I use the following in rc.local. You could build a systemd unit for it, if >> you'd like. > > Good idea. I have submitted it to > https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/pull/46 and added to the > debian package. It's a matter of adding > > Nice=-10 > > in the [Service] section of /lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service > >> I'm going to go read the bug reports to see if this is already being >> tracked. If not, I will open a bug. > > I don't remember any. It's commited already anyway, so no need any more > for a bug report, thanks :)
I'm sorry. My message must not have been clear. The niceness change helps in the case of choppy speech. It does not help in the case that I was going to open a bug about. The bug is that a large input to espeakup causes the synthasizer to stop speaking for a time measured in seconds. Depending on how much data is sent into espeakup it could be one second or a multiple there of. Thank you for adding the renice to the package. It would be good to taskset as well, if systemd has a mechanism for this so we don't have a dependency on util-linux. --FC >> Yes I could always tell the building process to not use as many jobs but >> this slows down the building process. > > You can also do the converse: > > nice -20 make -j 40 > > to make the build nicer to the rest of the system. > > But yes, better make espeakup prioritized, thanks for raising the issue! > > Samuel
