Ace: Tyler Spivey answered this question back on September 26th of last year. I knew I had saved the post, the text of which appears below. John You can get the version of the firmware by typing: echo "[:ver speak]" >/proc/speakup/synth_direct before you do this, turn off speakup with insert-enter - because you're writing directly to the synth, and speakup might silence the string if it speaks the prompt right after. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ----- Original Message ----- From: "ace" <ace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:31 PM Subject: Re: Dectalk external > How does one check what their version/model is? All I know is that I > have a DECTalk Express. > > At 04:23 PM 2/15/2006, you wrote: >>Ok here is the question when we speak of the dectalk external how far >>back in firmware do we go. >>I got a clasic model here version 2.0. the faq reports that the dectalk >>external works with speakup. It says external or express so I am >>assuming here that we are speaking of the dectalk clasic model also. >>This device supports indexing while the one x serize does not. >>Thanks a bundle. >> >>jim grimsby >>msn: jim.grimsby at att.net >>email: jimgrims at pacbell.net >>skype: jim.grimsby >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Speakup mailing list >>Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >