Gene, thanks! I'm having other problems, but trying the command, it seemed I sure got a lot of speed out of the thing. I'll try some other experiments. Al -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gene Collins Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 12:09 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: question on using old external DECTalk Hi. You can see if yourDecTalk external supports anything faster by sending a synth command directly to the synthesizer. Try something like the following: echo "[:ra700]" >/sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth_direct See if that doesn't help. Gene >Hi, > > I think they did upgrade the DECtalk's maximum speech rate >sometime in the early 90's or so. So it's probably that the fastest >rate your old unit can do is slower than you like. I see no way around >this, since newer firmware almost certainly wasn't made for the older DECtalk units. >Jayson > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "al Sten-Clanton" <Albert.E.Sten_Clanton at verizon.net> >To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" ><speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:18 AM >Subject: RE:question on using old external DECTalk > > >> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >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
