speakup and the dec express

speakup and the dec express

[Mike Pedersen]

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Hi all, I am currently using the speakup included in Bill Acker's redhat 7.1
iso images.  Speakup is working well with my external doubletalk, however it
will not work with my dec express.  The string that I am passing to the
kernel for the doubletalk which works is speakup_synth=ltlk the one that I
am using for the dec which does not work is speakup_synth=decext.  I have
the latest firmware in my dec and it works with JFW and emacspeak.
Any help would be much appreciated.


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Re: speakup and the dec express

[Matthew Campbell]

The reason why you are having trouble is that the "decext" synthesizer
ID refers to the old external DECtalk, not the DECtalk Express.  For
the Express, use "speakup_synth=dectlk".

-- 
Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>

RE: speakup and the dec express

[Mike Pedersen]

Thanks much, that did it.  For some reason, I thought that option was for
the old pc cards.


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Matthew Campbell
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 8:24 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: speakup and the dec express


The reason why you are having trouble is that the "decext" synthesizer
ID refers to the old external DECtalk, not the DECtalk Express.  For
the Express, use "speakup_synth=dectlk".

--
Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>

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RE: speakup and the dec express

[Geoff Shang]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Pedersen wrote:

> Thanks much, that did it.  For some reason, I thought that option was for
> the old pc cards.

The dectalk PC is not yet supported, due to its needing the internal
software to be loaded into the card at boot time.

Geoff.

redhat imagesRe: speakup and the dec express

[Rich Caloggero]

I was pointed to an ftp site with kernel images for redhat. How do I use
these? Do I need to burn them to CDRom and then boot the machine from CD, or
can I use them directly from hard drive?
Sorry for the dumb question.

                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Campbell" <mattcampbell@pobox.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: speakup and the dec express


> The reason why you are having trouble is that the "decext" synthesizer
> ID refers to the old external DECtalk, not the DECtalk Express.  For
> the Express, use "speakup_synth=dectlk".
>
> --
> Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: redhat imagesRe: speakup and the dec express

[Tommy Moore]

Hi there Rich are the images your wanting to get the 1.44 meg ones or the
650 MB iso images.
If their the 1.44 MB ones you'll have to write them to floppies using dd
on any unix system or use rawrite in dos. if their the iso images those
will have to be burned on to cd.
 On Mon, 21 May 2001, Rich Caloggero
wrote:

> I was pointed to an ftp site with kernel images for redhat. How do I use
> these? Do I need to burn them to CDRom and then boot the machine from CD, or
> can I use them directly from hard drive?
> Sorry for the dumb question.
> 
>                     Rich
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Campbell" <mattcampbell@pobox.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup and the dec express
> 
> 
> > The reason why you are having trouble is that the "decext" synthesizer
> > ID refers to the old external DECtalk, not the DECtalk Express.  For
> > the Express, use "speakup_synth=dectlk".
> >
> > --
> > Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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
> 

Re: redhat imagesRe: speakup and the dec express

[Rich Caloggero]

How do you burn images to CD? Do I just write to the appropriate /device
with dd as per the floppy case, or do I need to use a different command?
                    Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tommy Moore" <stp@saitechinc.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: redhat imagesRe: speakup and the dec express


>
> Hi there Rich are the images your wanting to get the 1.44 meg ones or the
> 650 MB iso images.
> If their the 1.44 MB ones you'll have to write them to floppies using dd
> on any unix system or use rawrite in dos. if their the iso images those
> will have to be burned on to cd.
>  On Mon, 21 May 2001, Rich Caloggero
> wrote:
>
> > I was pointed to an ftp site with kernel images for redhat. How do I use
> > these? Do I need to burn them to CDRom and then boot the machine from
CD, or
> > can I use them directly from hard drive?
> > Sorry for the dumb question.
> >
> >                     Rich
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matthew Campbell" <mattcampbell@pobox.com>
> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: speakup and the dec express
> >
> >
> > > The reason why you are having trouble is that the "decext" synthesizer
> > > ID refers to the old external DECtalk, not the DECtalk Express.  For
> > > the Express, use "speakup_synth=dectlk".
> > >
> > > --
> > > Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > 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
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: redhat imagesRe: speakup and the dec express

[Tommy Moore]

For burning you'l want to check out cdrecord and read the man page before
using it.
Heh.

Re: redhat imagesRe: speakup and the dec express

[Kirk Wood]

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> How do you burn images to CD? Do I just write to the appropriate /device
> with dd as per the floppy case, or do I need to use a different command?

You will need to use cdrecord. It isn't always a straight forward path to
be able to use the package. You should read the CD-Writing howto file. It
will help you along the path.

=============
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.

Re: redhat imagesRe: speakup and the dec express

[Janina Sajka]

Either way. You can burn CD ROMs from these images, or you can install
from them off your hard-disk. Of course, you'll need to put them on a
partition you won't be formatting and installing linux on!
 On Mon, 21 May
2001, Rich Caloggero wrote:

> I was pointed to an ftp site with kernel images for redhat. How do I use
> these? Do I need to burn them to CDRom and then boot the machine from CD, or
> can I use them directly from hard drive?
> Sorry for the dumb question.
>
>                     Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Campbell" <mattcampbell@pobox.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup and the dec express
>
>
> > The reason why you are having trouble is that the "decext" synthesizer
> > ID refers to the old external DECtalk, not the DECtalk Express.  For
> > the Express, use "speakup_synth=dectlk".
> >
> > --
> > Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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
>

Re: speakup and the dec express

[Janina Sajka]

You're using the wrong string for the DEC Talk Express. It should be:

	speakup_synth=dectlk

It works just fine for me.

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Mike Pedersen wrote:

> Hi all, I am currently using the speakup included in Bill Acker's redhat 7.1
> iso images.  Speakup is working well with my external doubletalk, however it
> will not work with my dec express.  The string that I am passing to the
> kernel for the doubletalk which works is speakup_synth=ltlk the one that I
> am using for the dec which does not work is speakup_synth=decext.  I have
> the latest firmware in my dec and it works with JFW and emacspeak.
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>