The Dectalk Express doesn't say words with apostrophes right either, under Speakup. It treats what's to the right as a separate word. E.G. doesn't is spoken as doesn t. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:26 PM Subject: Re: Dectalk isa model > I have had pretty bad luck with the Dectalk PC2 card that I have. I can > get it to work some of the time with the CVS speakup. If I have already > loaded the drivers from Windows, it will come up talking. Otherwise, it > fails to load the drivers on cold boot, and requires another cold boot > before Windows can load the drivers again. From a cold boot, the command > "dtload -v" gives the output: > waitmode p=c001 s = 1000 > status -9 > testkernel got dec > Loading kernel of 25386 bytes ( 69 relocs ) > cs:ip == 0040:0010 ss:sp == 07b3:0200 > card is ready > dt_loadmem: addr = 00000400 size = 25386 > > Any attempt to load Speakup's Dectalk PC module at this point locks up the > computer. Even when I can get it speaking, it causes the clock in Linux > to start losing time at an alarming rate. This seems to be some sort of > interrupt issue. For example, if I start playing a sound file or > streaming audio, I can make the sound skip just by pressing keypad enter > regardless of whether the Dectalk PC is speaking or not. I've tried > changing the IO address of the Dectalk PC, but that made no difference. > I posted about some of my problems, especially the clock problem, on this > list, and nobody else seemed to be having them. The only problem > universally recognized is that the Dectalk doesn't say words with > apostrophes correctly under Speakup. I attempted to contact the developer > of the Dectalk PC driver, but my email bounced. I've pretty much > concluded that the Dectalk PC driver isn't ready for production use. If > you can get your hands on an old Double Talk or Accent PC, you'll have > better luck. On the other hand, maybe mine is an isolated case. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
