Dectalk isa model

[Jayson Smith]

The Dectalk Express doesn't say words with apostrophes right either, under
Speakup.  It treats what's to the right as a separate word.  E.G. doesn't is
spoken as doesn t.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Myrow" <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:26 PM
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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