From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 432 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at befuddled; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:09:47 EDT Received: from opera.rednote.net (opera.rednote.net [IPv6:2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe70:e783]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A6191EF734 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from concerto.rednote.net ([IPv6:2601:a:3780:1f:be5f:f4ff:fe45:6a6e]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r4AH9h5B024549 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 17:09:43 GMT Received: from concerto.rednote.net (concerto.rednote.net [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r4AH9hvl026095 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:09:43 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r4AH9hDP026094 for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:09:43 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: concerto.rednote.net: janina set sender to janina@rednote.net using -f Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:09:43 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Speakup Issues Message-ID: <20130510170943.GB3601@concerto.rednote.net> References: <20130329215924.GA14887@linux1> <20130330013250.GA17036@gregn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130330013250.GA17036@gregn.net> X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 3.8.11-200.fc18.x86_64 X-PGP-Key: http://rednote.net/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 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: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:09:49 -0000 Ah, Greg, I'm jealous! But, I may catch up to you. I do have a pristine, never used, Socket 7 mobo, appropriate CPU and RAM here. Just need to find a case and psu for it, I suppose. I've got about 3 ISA Doubletalk cards. Janina Gregory Nowak writes: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:59:24PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > Another question is that we still have drivers for old internal ISA > > synthesizers, such as the doubletalk pc, dectalk pc, accent pc and > > keynote pc. Are these being used? > > Yes, I still have an old box here with an isa slot with a doubletalk > pc. I mainly use it these days to access other linux boxes, because > I'm very fond of my doubletalk, and don't want to give it up if I > don't have to. I have nothing against espeak/espeakup, it's just that > hearing that "doubletalk pc found" message invariably brings a smile to my > face. Also, maybe it's my imagination, but that doubletalk pc on old > hardware seems to still be slightly more responsive than > espeak/espeakup on modern hardware. I have also idly toyed with the > idea of getting one of these: > > http://www.arstech.com/item--usb2isa.html > > and found myself wondering if speakup could be made to drive a doubletalk pc > through this converter. > > Greg > > > -- > web site: http://www.gregn.net > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/