Hi all. Does anyone know if the Dectalk PC actually has any blank chips on its board? Because anyone with a Rom burner can actually burn dictionary files onto blank chips and sodder them onto the Dectalk PC board. This would probably be out of reach for most users, but its a sollution. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:24 AM Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > Hi teddy. > viavoice won't be supported by speakup as I understand it because it's a > nonfree package and the source code isn't freely available. > as for the problem with the dec-talk pc, the issue is, needing dictionary > files to be loaded into the synth at boot time. > You can't do this until the file systems are properly mounted. So, if one > gets a kernel panic, you wouldn't know about it because you wouldn't have > speech from kernel load. > hth > > > -- > Shaun Oliver > > Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the > > > only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. > > > -- Wernher von Braun. > > > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au > > > icq:76958435 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
