I thought that in order to use an internal synth in dosemu directly via it's native drivers, you had to have a none-speakup kernel. Greg On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:19:16PM -0600, Adam Myrow wrote: > Here is my promised follow-up to my tests of using /dev/synth as a com > port under DOSemu. I installed JAWS for DOS on my simulated C: drive in > DOSemu, using Speakup to read the screen. I had to use review most of the > time, and the arrow keys didn't speak selections quite right, but I was > able to work through it. Anyhow, I selected the Accent SA and told JAWS > to use com1. I then killed Speakup and restarted DOSemu with the "-k" > flag, and JAWS for DOS came right up and reset the Accent to default > values for speed, rate, etc. I went into Jaws, and adjusted the settings > as best I could, but couldn't quite match what I use in Speakup. Then, I > started playing with various applications and discovered that JAWS behaves > much like Tinytalk. That is, it occasionally acted as if words were > broken between two lines, but otherwise talked. However, it has its own > problems working under DOSemu. For instance, it sometimes doesn't speak > the first character of the line, and it seems to have a horrible time > tracking the PC cursor. So, I don't recommend it unless you can tweak it > and get better performance. I would be greatly interested in how > Vocal-Eyes and ASAP handle in DOSemu. > > Another option besides using the /dev/synth device is to try to load > native drivers for the synth if its internal. For instance, I was able to > get the Dectalk PC drivers to load, but this required some modifications > to /etc/dosemu.conf, involving telling it to pass the base address of the > Dectalk directly to DOSemu. JAWS for DOS behaved quite similarly using > the Dectalk drivers, so I suspect its problems are more with DOSemu than > /dev/synth. > > I wish I had better news regarding JAWS for DOS, but here you are. I will > probably continue to experiment since I can still boot into Windows and > use DOS mode for those applications that need it. I started experimenting > with this because I eventually plan on upgrading my computer and this will > likely involve a shift to Windows XP, which to my knowledge, does not > support DOS screen readers. So, I am trying to find a workable > alternative. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
