interesting experiment.

[Igor Gueths]

Hi all. Does anyone know if the Dectalk PC actually has any blank chips on its board? Because anyone with a Rom burner can actually burn dictionary files onto blank chips and sodder them onto the Dectalk PC board. This would probably be out of reach for most users, but its a sollution. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: interesting experiment.


> Hi teddy.
> viavoice won't be supported by speakup as I understand it because it's a
> nonfree package and the source code isn't freely available.
> as for the problem with the dec-talk pc, the issue is, needing dictionary
> files to be loaded into the synth at boot time.
> You can't do this until the file systems are properly mounted. So, if one
> gets a kernel panic, you wouldn't know about it because you wouldn't have
> speech from kernel load.
> hth
> 
> 
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> Shaun Oliver
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