question on using old external DECTalk

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

     I think they did upgrade the DECtalk's maximum speech rate sometime in 
the early 90's or so. So it's probably that the fastest rate your old unit 
can do is slower than you like. I see no way around this, since newer 
firmware almost certainly wasn't made for the older DECtalk units.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "al Sten-Clanton" <Albert.E.Sten_Clanton at verizon.net>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: RE:question on using old external DECTalk


> Greetings!
>
> I got an old external DECTalk from our commission for the blind.  I tried
> using it briefly yesterday with the Speakup-modified Fedora 10 
> installation
> CD.  It talked, but even at Speakup's rate 9, seemed notably slower than 
> my
> TripleTalk LT.  I'd thought that a DECTalk, even the oldest ones, wwas
> supposed to be able to speak at something over seven hundred words a 
> minute.
> I didn't see anything on the device itself for adjusting its speech rate.
>
> Is there some software solution for this, or am I probably stuck with the
> slow speech if I use that device?  Are newer versions of the DECTAlk 
> faster?
>
> Thank you for any info.
>
> Al
>
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