So that sounds like an Express. The older one is just a large box with a power switch on the front and a volume/phone jacks/1/8" audio output/2 25-pin serial ports on the back. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 06:20:47PM -0500, al Sten-Clanton wrote: > Alex, this guy has a volume knob, a headphone jack, and a telephone-style > jack at one end and the jack for the adapter at the other. It says DECTalk > in braille, but nothing more. > > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Alex Snow > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 5:24 PM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: question on using old external DECTalk > > 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] _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Let's call it an accidental feature. -- Larry Wall
