From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net([199.45.39.156]) (4139 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:59:22 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net (adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net [151.200.20.29]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA04613 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:58:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA22503 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:59:48 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:59:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Janina Sajka X-Sender: janina@adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Voice Synthesizers and now tripple talk In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000909230002.007ac5e0@mail.ufw2.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: No, it has happened. I think Shanghai was the first to go to 8 digit dialing. London now has it as well. It is also the reason for the increasing reliance on mandatory ten digit dialing in the states. On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Brent Harding wrote: > Wow, I thought most pbx's are dedicated boxes hooked to the phone lines. I > see their use increasing as phone numbers start running out. What's > happening to IP addresses on the net could happen to phone numbers, not > yet, but some time. > At 01:38 PM 9/10/00 +1100, you wrote: > >Hrmm actually there are drivers for winmodems. The lucent ones have drivers, > >and Fabris Bellard (of lzexe fame) is writing a software modem driver. syy > >http://www.linmodems.org/ > >I'd suggest steering clear of the winmodems because of their cpu requirement > >but they are a nice telephony option for asteriskpbx > http://www.asteriskpbx.com > >a pabx system for Linux and yes it can hook to a phone network. > > > >Regards, Kerry. > >On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:58:30PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > >> If you had one, how would one even know how it works? The same thing > >> happens with winmodems, nobody's gotten a driver made for many of them, yet > >> yet they're in big supply. > >> At 08:56 AM 9/9/00 -0400, you wrote: > >> >"Frank J. Carmickle" writes: > >> > > >> >> By the way Reiser Janina said she was getting one. She was gong to > get in > >> >> touch with them to see about getting you one for writing a driver. > >> > > >> >I have spoken with the TrippleTalk folks a couple of times but they > >> >have never actually managed to send me one. Either they are really, > >> >really busy, or things aren't what they appear to be. > >> > > >> >> Anybody else interested in writing the tripple talk driver. I think > that > >> >> all of us who know Kirk know that he hates writing drivers. > >> > > >> >I don't mind writing it, but you have to have one before you can do > >> >that. So far, it's vaporware. > >> > > >> > Kirk > >> > > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Speakup mailing list > >> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > >-- > >-- > >Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.eu.org > >Alternates: kerry@emusys.com.au kerry@gotss.spice.net.au or khoath@lis.net.au > >ICQ UIN: 8226547 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina@afb.net