From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: DecTalk ISA Annoyances!
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:08:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061112030859.GB6213@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061112024639.15257.qmail@web34514.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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I wonder if your problem could be caused by having preemption enabled
in the kernel? I've only heard of this happening with software speech
before, but from what I understand, the dectalk requires software to
be loaded into it to work, so I thought I'd mention it.
Greg
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:46:39PM -0800, Radical NetSurfer wrote:
> For some reason I am finding my new DecTalk ISA card
> goes into some weird mode where the 1st digit of a
> rank expression is lost, for example:
>
> 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th,
>
> when this problem happens, the very 1st digit is
> totally ignored, I mean it is never spoken, and it
> spells out the other 2 letters however.
>
> Would anyone out there know what causes this?
> Some unusual character stream from a text file might
> do this; change into some mode I'm not aware of, if so
> how do I pin it down?
>
> I heard that maxi-aids websight was selling their
> DecTalk ISA OEM cards, apparently due to some silly
> rumor ISA is deprecated, there is absolutely no
> documentation, no driver disk, just the card itself.
> So I decided I would get two of them for their amazing
> closeout price. If we can get USB to support ISA
> cards, I am going to be very excited about having
> these
> cards on hand.
>
> I hope this is appropriate, but I would like to know
> where I might be able to find a working DoubleTalk LT
> unit. I am able to repair the serial cable to any
> working LT that simply requires a new serial cable.
> If you have a reasonable price on a more-or-less
> working DT unit, please email me directly.
>
> RadSurfer@yahoo.com
>
> Thanks.
>
> //Rich//
>
>
>
>
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