Dectalk isa model

[Jared Stofflett]

Looks like I'm going to weight and hope the keynote gold synth comes out
with a driver. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Adam Myrow
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:26 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Dectalk isa model

I have had pretty bad luck with the Dectalk PC2 card that I have.  I can get
it to work some of the time with the CVS speakup.  If I have already loaded
the drivers from Windows, it will come up talking.  Otherwise, it fails to
load the drivers on cold boot, and requires another cold boot before Windows
can load the drivers again.  From a cold boot, the command "dtload -v" gives
the output:
waitmode p=c001 s = 1000
status -9
testkernel got dec
Loading kernel of 25386 bytes ( 69 relocs )
    cs:ip == 0040:0010   ss:sp == 07b3:0200
card is ready
dt_loadmem: addr = 00000400 size = 25386

Any attempt to load Speakup's Dectalk PC module at this point locks up the
computer.  Even when I can get it speaking, it causes the clock in Linux to
start losing time at an alarming rate.  This seems to be some sort of
interrupt issue.  For example, if I start playing a sound file or streaming
audio, I can make the sound skip just by pressing keypad enter regardless of
whether the Dectalk PC is speaking or not.  I've tried changing the IO
address of the Dectalk PC, but that made no difference.
I posted about some of my problems, especially the clock problem, on this
list, and nobody else seemed to be having them.  The only problem
universally recognized is that the Dectalk doesn't say words with
apostrophes correctly under Speakup.  I attempted to contact the developer
of the Dectalk PC driver, but my email bounced.  I've pretty much concluded
that the Dectalk PC driver isn't ready for production use.  If you can get
your hands on an old Double Talk or Accent PC, you'll have better luck.  On
the other hand, maybe mine is an isolated case.

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