speakup uncommunicative with dectalk synth

[Sean McMahon]

As usual, I'm confused, is this a decktalk express or a decktalk external?  They
have different command-line options for speakup because they are different
synths.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jim grimsby" <jimgrims at pacbell.net>
To: <jaffar at jeffstudio.net>; "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:01 AM
Subject: RE: speakup uncommunicative with dectalk synth


Hi,
What fermware on the dectalk express are you using.  After using it with
another screen reader it is a good idea to reset the device so it
reverts to defaults.
Hth

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of
jaffar at jeffstudio.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:13 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: speakup uncommunicative with dectalk synth


Hi Friends.  I have tried on numerous occasions within the last few
hours to install fc3.  I won't say that I've had no success because on
hitting the enter key or the space bar, there is definitely disk
activity.  The problem i am getting is that Speakup will not effectively
communicate with my external dectalk synth.

Just as a precautionary measure, I type in the usual command to get
speakup to talk through my dectalk external synth and add the serial
port info which is the default com port 1 to the command so speakup can
look for the port onto which my dectalk express is connected: text
speakup_synth=dectlk speakup_ser=0 but each time i try booting up
fedora, my dectalk express refuses to speak.  On occasions, I get a
smattering of speach, some garble i don't understand, and that was when
I've given more than one minute for dectalk to start speaking.  And this
garble comes up when i hit the space bar after the time frame in which
dectalk is supposed to speak passes.  There is no speech after that
garble, but there is definitely disk activity.  There was once when I
hit the tab key afew times and pressed enter, the disk was ejected from
my system, which goes to show that the installation process did indeed
take place.  SSo i am at my wit's end and need help and advice here.
Just as a note, i downloaded the most current version of fedora, and all
files seem to be in place.  I can't do an md5 sum check with windows
though as I neither have the program nor the knowledge to do so.  Also,
I did try booting fedora using the boot.iso disk as well.  Cheers!



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