Help, voice is cracking - not puberty

[Dover]

ok, i just downloaded the 7.5.1 update
installed it and decided to play with the new
speech manager. unfortunately the voice on it keeps
skipping like when you talk facing a really big fan. :-(

I'm using a IIsi if this makes a difference...
is fred to complex a voice for my computer?!
I used to have bruce on without probs...

any help and advice are greatly appreciated

-Dover

[James Wang]

Dover <jsco...@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
) unfortunately the voice on it keeps
) skipping like when you talk facing a really big fan. :-(
)
) I'm using a IIsi if this makes a difference...
) is fred to complex a voice for my computer?!

yes. Fred and the other MacinTalk 3 voices (Bubbles/Junior)
are more CPU-intensive than the MacinTalk Pro voices
(Bruce/Victoria) that are simply memory/resource hungry.
an 040 is highly recommended.

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[Noah Iliinsky]

In article <3ktmaq$l...@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,

Dover <jsco...@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
>ok, i just downloaded the 7.5.1 update
>installed it and decided to play with the new
>speech manager. unfortunately the voice on it keeps
>skipping like when you talk facing a really big fan. :-(
>I'm using a IIsi if this makes a difference...

{snip}

The IIsi has notorious sound problems, as the speaker is not soldered to
the motherboard, it just touches it with contacts. However, unless you
are having problems with other sounds this is probably not the problem.
-Noah (fishing)
--
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[John N. Grabill]

In article <3ktmaq$l...@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, jsco...@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Dover) wrote:

> ok, i just downloaded the 7.5.1 update
> installed it and decided to play with the new
> speech manager. unfortunately the voice on it keeps
> skipping like when you talk facing a really big fan. :-(
>
> I'm using a IIsi if this makes a difference...
> is fred to complex a voice for my computer?!
> I used to have bruce on without probs...
>

The IIsi has a documented problem with the connection between the
speaker and the motherboard. Cleaning the contacts between the speaker
and the motherboard and the problem should go away, for awhile.
Connecting an external speaker fixes it forever.

John

--
"A Friend is one before whom I may Think aloud"...Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Woody Hanscom]

In article <jgrabill-020...@jgrabill-ppp.clark.net>,

jgra...@clark.net (John N. Grabill) wrote:

> In article <3ktmaq$l...@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, jsco...@nyx10.cs.du.edu
(Dover) wrote:
>

> > ok, i just downloaded the 7.5.1 update
> > installed it and decided to play with the new
> > speech manager. unfortunately the voice on it keeps
> > skipping like when you talk facing a really big fan. :-(
> >
> > I'm using a IIsi if this makes a difference...
> > is fred to complex a voice for my computer?!
> > I used to have bruce on without probs...
> >

> The IIsi has a documented problem with the connection between the
> speaker and the motherboard. Cleaning the contacts between the speaker
> and the motherboard and the problem should go away, for awhile.
> Connecting an external speaker fixes it forever.

Thing is, this happens to me, too...and I'm on a IIvx (well, Perf600 with
an added FPU and Sys7.5). The 'main' voices (Bruce and Agnes, I think)
work fine, but all the 'secondary' voices (Zarvox and the like) have the
fan-stutter in them. Any other ideas?

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