Hi Kirk: I am aware of the limitations of writing a Speakup driver for the DecTalk PC. However, what if, before using something like loadlin to actually load the kernel, you were to do the initial DecTalk initialization with the standard DecTalk start-up files, then, after the DecTalk is ready to talk, load the kernel then? If I remember correctly, there are some C programs on the DecTalk PC driver disk which might give a clue as to some kind of work-around. Again, you'd have to actually load the DecTalk with the propper dictionaries and all before actually booting a kernel, but, I'm sure it could be lived with. Am I way off-base or what? Thanks!
