Speakup and Apollo 2

[Holmes, Steve]

I notice something similar with the Speakout as well.  In my case, I hear
things like P3 which is a pitch command for the Speakout.  I think what is
happening here is when pressing keys rapidly and interrupting speech that
some commands intended for the synthesizer are getting spoken instead of
being obeyed:).  With Speakout, ctrl-E is the command code and I think that
code is getting dropped thus the remaining command text will get spoken.  Is
F8, by chance, a command string for the Apollo?  I used to see a lot of this
with serial synthesizers in the past with DOS and windows but then things
improved over time.  At least, I don't hear other characters being dropped
so I do think the hardware handshaking is working OK.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michela Botti [mailto:mibotti at tiscalinet.it]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 5:17 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Speakup and Apollo 2


 Hi listers!
 I've been apart from the list for a couple of months this summer, and I
 didn't check out if this argument has already been treated.
 I want to report two little problems of the Apollo 2 driver (or whatever
 thise problems are concerned with).
 While moving not too sloly the reading cursor around the screen, the sinth
 sometimes says the word "f8", even if it isn't found on the screen.
 When using the numpad 7, 8, and 9 command or while reading more than one
 line of text, Apollo 2 doesn't read continuously, but it inserts frequent
 short breaks (maybe one evry 10 or 15 words) even whithin a word; it is
 sometimes necessary to read a text with the numpad 4 and numpad 6 commands
 (most of all while reading in English which is not my mothertong), and this
 may take a longer time.


 Best regards
 Michela






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