From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GedEt-0007Az-00 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:07 -0500 Received: from db2.internal (db2.internal [10.202.2.12]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274EFDBDCFA for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by db2.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:03 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: eydSbMCVJd3U2A3FKTqUk+/hzjr2qraxV5rz1iio20vZ 1162238163 Received: from cq.ftml.net (24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.197.112]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F628152DA for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from chuckh by cq.ftml.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GedEm-0002Ao-KZ for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:56:00 -0500 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: external synthrecommendation? Message-ID: <20061030195600.GA8324@cq.ftml.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <05c401c6fc42$ad3d61c0$4ba65c90@vv507j> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <05c401c6fc42$ad3d61c0$4ba65c90@vv507j> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:56:07 -0000 Hi John, On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:44:33AM -0600, John Heim wrote: > > I have 2 questions: > 1. Is my experience with the doubletalk LT typical? How long do they usually > last? For $350, I'd expect to get more than a year and a half out of it. No, not typical at all. I have been using this external doubletalk for about ten years with no problems. The volume control is a little scratchy, but if I leave it alone and use the speakup volume commands, it is never noticed. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (60% of Full) Only 10 kinds of people: those who do binary, and those who do not. But you can get a few downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh