contacting dectalk express driver maintainers

[Trevor Astrope]

Just for the record, I use speakup with a dectalk express at work and it 
says the mix numbers and letters fine, saying the number and then the word 
as in "3 com" for 3com and "usb 2" for usb2.

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> I appreciate that there are probably some problems with the dectalk
> express driver.  Unfortunately, I do not have a dectalk express or any
> other dectalk for that matter to do testing with.  The capitalization
> fix is probably not to difficult and may be fixable without one to
> test with.  The mixed numbers and partial words on the other hand is
> one of those problems where everybody has their own idea how it should
> work and would be very difficult to test without a unit to play with.
> The default dectalk behaviour as I'm sure you all know is to spell all
> words attached to numbers which is not what most dectalk users want.
> So I suspect in addition to working on the problem you all should
> discuss what type of behaviour you would prefer and then maybe I can
> put something together for someone to test with.  It'll be slow but
> without a unit that's the best I can do.
>
>  Kirk
>
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>
> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
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