I have experienced the same problem and find that it degrades more each time you turn the dectalk off and on again. Probably should be some script that could be run to reset the detalk. If I knew how to do it, then I would write it. Oh, the woes of the novice. On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. Today I had to switch my Dectalk to another machine again, and > when I reconnected the synth to the serial port, I tried out what Kenny > had suggested a while back which was to press some speakup review keys so > that Speakup knows a synth is not present. Once I did this for about 5-10 > seconds, I turned the Dectalk back on and pressed numpad zero+numpad > enter. The only difference was that I heard a message that said "Dectalk > restarted." However, I still got the same punctuation delay, in fact I am > getting it now since I haven't rebooted yet. I would prefer to solve this > without having to reboot the machine, as I have had to do in the past. > Does anyone know what could be causing this delay? Also, what is the exact > message that I should hear when Speakup claims to have re-initialized the > Dectalk? Should it be Dectalk restarted, or initialized? I just would like > to make sure I am doing the right thing and am getting the correct > message. Thanks! > > May you code in the power of the source, > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you, > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Charlie Crawford
