Hi there. How would one download the necissary software onto the Dectalk board? BC what I was thinking is possibly modify the firmware on the board so that it doesn't need to be downloaded or sent an init command. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Collins" <collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Dec Talk internal cards supported? > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
