It is. A talking one. It can sub as a synth. On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Glenn Ervin at Home wrote: > > I thought the Blazer was an embosser. > Glenn. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:44 PM > Subject: Re: Braille Blazer problems > > > I've seen the problem of the blazer resetting itself when too much > text is sent to it with speakup 1.00, and with 1.5. Speakup is the > only screen reader I've seen this problem with, both provox and > window-eyes work fine. > > As for the pitch not changing in the bns driver for lower and upper > case, I've found that I need to make a change in one of the speakup > files (I.E. /proc/speakup/volume, /proc/speakup/punct ETC.), and then > the voice lowers for upper case, and comes back to normal for lower > case, which is the opposite of how it's normally done, but there is > case change indication at least. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am running Slackware 9.1 with Speakup 1.5 using my Braille Blazer as a > > synthesizer. I, however, am having multiple issues with it. For one > > thing, when too much text gets sent over the serial port, it turns > > itself off and back on, which destroys my punctuation/pitch settings (I > > can fix the pitch and speed, though). My second problem is > > Speakup-related. I've seen it in Speakup 1.0, 1.5, and CVS speakup > > (which, might I add, made my blazer sound quite weird). This problem is > > that it does not announce uppercase letters in a higher pitch than > > lowercase ones. This has also happened when using my Braille Lite 40 as > > a synth. I've tried a warm reset, and that didn't help. Sometimes it'll > > say some letters higher when spelling a word, but I think it doesn't > > just do the uppercase ones in that case, it's hard to tell. Case > > sensativity works in JAWS for DOS, BTW. > > I'm looking into getting a DoubleTalk LT, so I won't have to worry about > > these problems anymore. Either that, or possibly getting a TrippleTalk > > USB and using its serial port, would that work with speakup? Any > > suggestions to fix these annoying issues would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Garrett > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
