-----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of ameer armaly Sent: 22 March 2004 02:18 To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: New Product! DEC-TALK Express USB or RS232! > and will it support flashing old firmware; I hate the newer sound. Also, will it use > > the same command set? Alas, this is my guess about what they've done. The specs say it has a 150mhz processor. Now that's not something you can put inside an analogue circuit as used by old hardware synths. So my guess that the folks have simply got a small form factor computer with a 150mhz processor on it, put Linux and Fonix DECTalk on it, and a little daemon that listens for signals from the USB port and makes DECTalk Software do the talking. This is all pure guesswork, but I can't see why else they'd need a 150mhz processor in there. Saqib
