DecTalk ISA Annoyances!

DecTalk ISA Annoyances!

[Radical NetSurfer]

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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Re: DecTalk ISA Annoyances!

[Gregory Nowak]

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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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Re: DecTalk ISA Annoyances!

[Tyler Spivey]

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this also happens with my dectalk express. try sending:
d3d
to it, and see what it says.
- - Tyler

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 08:08:59PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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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//
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > ____________________________________________________________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.
> > http://new.mail.yahoo.com
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
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