Hey Martin: I use a pcmcia serial card. It looks like a standard serial port with the old io ports and irq's. I've had it since shortly after I left O.S.u. Guess that was over 10 years now. It still works though. I'd think one could still get one. If you are interested, I can get the make and model. Terry On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:14:45 -0600you write: > I installed oralux with speakup and the software speech >on a laptop in August and it works great for the most part. I >recently tried a very low-cost USB-based RS232 port converter >because the laptop does not have one and I want to be able to >use it on servers which is part of my job. For the first time, I >hit a real performance issue. > > When using ssh, the speech works perfectly but when >using the USB converter, every incoming character must preempt >the speech engine because the system goes in to that same >painfully slow spelling routine that one gets with speakup on >GRML with software speech. > > What I actually had going at the time was c-kermit's >terminal emulator so that might make a difference. > > Fortunately, I didn't buy the RS-232 converter. It is >just one we had at work so I am not out any money. I still need >to figure out something because that spelling mode could turn >someone in to an old man before his time. > > The system recognized the device as a RS-232 converter >and it technically worked in that one could periodically read >the screen in speakup and get good output, but you sure can't >listen as it comes in. > > Any suggestions? > >Martin McCormick > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list