Hello all. There are no dectalk internal boards supported to my knowledge. Only the external serial dectalk express and the original dectalk external synthesizers are supported. The problem with the internal isa cards is that they have to have software downloaded onto the card before they can be used. Since Speakup is activated and initialized almost the first thing after the kernel is loaded and initialized, and before the file system is available, there is at present no way to have the kernel download the software onto the internal dectalk boards. I believe you can use these boards with emacs speak, but I am not familiar with it, and so can not say. Making these dectalk boards usable is on Kirk's to do list, but there are a number of things that have to happen first, such as the almost complete rewrite of Speakup to make it usable with the 2.2.5 kernels, and the modularization of the synthesizer drivers, before a dectalk-pc driver could be written. Gene >It is difficult to find computers or have on ebuilt with the isa slots >required for the dec pc's. So $150 might be unrealistic. > >-- charlie.
