Speakup 0.10A and Apollo

[Kerry Hoath]

The artic transport can run in 2 modes:
Porttalk which it does properly,
and accent that it does badly.
The internation under the accent driver is rather flat; strange things happen with
achronyms and punctuation and the accent command set has higher overhead.
Anyone who has used a transport in accent mode under JFW will note
the lack of internation, the stupid slowdowns and other silliness.

In porttalk mode, the transport behaves itself a lot better.
Also, the porttalk (transport emulator) that Geoff uses on the Eureka
only emulates porttalk and not accent.
The reason for this is that the shutup code for the accent is a multi-character code
and for technical reasons it is difficult to hook the serial interrupts on the
64180 so porttalk it is with the control-x shutup code.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:30:38PM -0800, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> just curious-- why is there both an accent SA and a Transport driver
> anyway?   Does using the Transport driver improve the speech quality at all
> over use of the Accent driver?
> 
> At 01:47 PM 2/12/01 +1000, you wrote:
>  Hi:
>  
>  Speakup 0.10 saw a rather radical driver rewrite.  During this process,
>  some things broke.  Some have been discovered and fixed, some obviously
>  have not.  In my case, the transport driver did not work until we actually
>  altered some driver code.  The thing is that some supported synths are used
>  by only a few people, and therefore problems can take awhile to show up.
>  
>  Kirk is of course the resident guru on synth driver code, though Jim might
>  also know enough to help out.  Kirk is quite unwell at the moment so he
>  won't be able to troubleshoot this for at least the next few days.
>  
>  Geoff.
>  
>  
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