Braille Blazer problems

[Gregory Nowak]

I've seen the problem of the blazer resetting itself when too much
text is sent to it with speakup 1.00, and with 1.5. Speakup is the
only screen reader I've seen this problem with, both provox and
window-eyes work fine.

As for the pitch not changing in the bns driver for lower and upper
case, I've found that I need to make a change in one of the speakup
files (I.E. /proc/speakup/volume, /proc/speakup/punct ETC.), and then
the voice lowers for upper case, and comes back to normal for lower
case, which is the opposite of how it's normally done, but there is
case change indication at least.

Greg


On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am running Slackware 9.1 with Speakup 1.5 using my Braille Blazer as a 
> synthesizer. I, however, am having multiple issues with it. For one 
> thing, when too much text gets sent over the serial port, it turns 
> itself off and back on, which destroys my punctuation/pitch settings (I 
> can fix the pitch and speed, though). My second problem is 
> Speakup-related. I've seen it in Speakup 1.0, 1.5, and CVS speakup 
> (which, might I add, made my blazer sound quite weird). This problem is 
> that it does not announce uppercase letters in a higher pitch than 
> lowercase ones. This has also happened when using my Braille Lite 40 as 
> a synth. I've tried a warm reset, and that didn't help. Sometimes it'll 
> say some letters higher when spelling a word, but I think it doesn't 
> just do the uppercase ones in that case, it's hard to tell. Case 
> sensativity works in JAWS for DOS, BTW.
> I'm looking into getting a DoubleTalk LT, so I won't have to worry about 
> these problems anymore. Either that, or possibly getting a TrippleTalk 
> USB and using its serial port, would that work with speakup? Any 
> suggestions to fix these annoying issues would be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Garrett
> 
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