Of course it had been a decade+ since I last used Emacs and have forgotten most of the commands already (back then I can see and therefore had cheat sheets and manuals) Oh well I guess until I can find an external DEC that I can afford, my poor BNS will have to do the job AND be my 'digital diary' :) --David At 01:33 PM 10/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >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
