I bought an external doubletalk a year ago in April. So it's only a year and a half old and it appears to hav died. I first started having trouble with it when it was still less than a year old. I kind of wish I had sent it back when it first started acting up. I have 2 questions: 1. Is my experience with the doubletalk LT typical? How long do they usually last? For $350, I'd expect to get more than a year and a half out of it. 2. Any recommendations for an external synth? Obviously, I want to spend as little as possible but I'll spend whatever I have to to get a good synth. PS: The symptoms are as follows: I turn the doubletalk on, it says "doubletalk ready". But it does not speak when used with a machine running speakup. I have a tripletalk external synth at workso I know speakup is working. When I initialize the doubletalk, I often get kernel error messages. But I don't think that's particularly meaningful. Probably the ltlk driver just doesn't know how to handle it whenit detects a synth but the synth doesn't respond properly.
