Will DecTalk work with with Speak Up?

[Georgina]

Hi

Whoops, sorry my mistake, don't know what I was thinking.  Sorry for any 
inconvience this may have caused.
Gena



>On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Georgina wrote:
>
>> Either of your cards will work
>
>This is WRONG!
>
>The dectalk PC card is *NOT* supported at this time.  This is a common
>question so I'll repeat it - the  dectalk PC is NOT supported.  The reason
>for this is that the dec PC needs to have its software loaded into it by
>the screenreader before it will work.  As it is right now, speakup
>synthesiser drivers must be initialised at boot time and of course, there
>are no filesystems mounted from which to load the dec PC's internal
>software in order to send it to the synth.  I presume that the size of this
>software makes putting it in speakup itself prohibitive.  It's situations
>like this that provide strong insentive for modularisation of speakup
>drivers, as people have been wanting dec PC support for as long as I can
>remember, at least since the external dectalks became supported.
>
>I should add that the doubletalk PC is well and truly supported, it being
>the first synth to work with speakup.
>
>Geoff.
>
>
>
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