What are prices for used synths like these days, and what are good places to look? I currently just have the transport and an old dectalk external (though I haven't gotten speakup to like that yet, all I can get it to do is work in Terminal mode with a dec VT510 terminal), and it's not what you would call portable. But another transport, or maybe an accent SA, would be convenient to have if I could find one at the right price. On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:04:22AM -0600, John Heim wrote: > I traded away my tripletalk to a guy who had a doubletalk precisely because > the tripletalk wouldn't work with newer versions of speakup. Ever since I > first got the tripletalk, it would take a minute to initialize. The screen > would fill with the message timeout while waiting for input" once a second > for 60 seconds. And then it would start talking. But somewhere around kernel > 2.6.18 it stopped working entirely. So I posted a message on the NFBCS list > asking if anyone with a doubletalk wanted to trade. Now I have 2 > doubletalks, one for home and one for work. > > The advantages of the tripletalk are really conveniences anyway. It can be > powered via a USB cable and it has an internal, rechargeable battery. It's > nice to not have to worry about the battery. And the tripletalk has a serial > cable that can be removed so if it wears out, you can just get a new one. > The serial cable on my original doubletalk has worn out twice now. > > So the one thing I think RC Systems should do is make the serial cable on > the doubletalk removable. And the company that makes the tripletalk should > make their specs available so it can be made to work with speakup. I think > they're missing out on a lot of sales. I will never buy another one because > of that. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton at gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:59 PM > Subject: Re: 4DOS > > > > It does for me. > > The hard part is finding a computer with a serial port. > > If you want to spend twice as much you can get a trippletalk USB but I > > don't > > know if it is 100% compatible with the doubletalk so not sure if it would > > work using speakup's doubletalk drivers > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- So in the future, one 'client' at a time or you'll be spending CPU time with lots of little 'child processes'. -- Kevin M. Bealer, commenting on the private life of a Linux nerd
