Which dectalk is this? Is it the Express, or the older external model with the 2 phone jacks in the back that preceded it? On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:18:33AM -0500, al Sten-Clanton wrote: > Greetings! > > I got an old external DECTalk from our commission for the blind. I tried > using it briefly yesterday with the Speakup-modified Fedora 10 installation > CD. It talked, but even at Speakup's rate 9, seemed notably slower than my > TripleTalk LT. I'd thought that a DECTalk, even the oldest ones, wwas > supposed to be able to speak at something over seven hundred words a minute. > I didn't see anything on the device itself for adjusting its speech rate. > > Is there some software solution for this, or am I probably stuck with the > slow speech if I use that device? Are newer versions of the DECTAlk faster? > > Thank you for any info. > > Al > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- /* * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP * to talk to the University of Mars. * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented * ftp to mars will work nicely. */ -- from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time]