From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.45]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16S0j8-0002Yp-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:00:30 -0500 Received: from gena-j.net ([80.4.50.11]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020119190032.SXTV7206.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@gena-j.net> for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:00:32 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=gena-j.net) by gena-j.net with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16S1kp-000097-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:06:19 +0000 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Will DecTalk work with with Speak Up? In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:03:18 +1000. Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:06:19 +0000 From: "Georgina" Message-Id: Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi Whoops, sorry my mistake, don't know what I was thinking. Sorry for any inconvience this may have caused. Gena >On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Georgina wrote: > >> Either of your cards will work > >This is WRONG! > >The dectalk PC card is *NOT* supported at this time. This is a common >question so I'll repeat it - the dectalk PC is NOT supported. The reason >for this is that the dec PC needs to have its software loaded into it by >the screenreader before it will work. As it is right now, speakup >synthesiser drivers must be initialised at boot time and of course, there >are no filesystems mounted from which to load the dec PC's internal >software in order to send it to the synth. I presume that the size of this >software makes putting it in speakup itself prohibitive. It's situations >like this that provide strong insentive for modularisation of speakup >drivers, as people have been wanting dec PC support for as long as I can >remember, at least since the external dectalks became supported. > >I should add that the doubletalk PC is well and truly supported, it being >the first synth to work with speakup. > >Geoff. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup