question on using old external DECTalk

[Gene Collins]

Hi.  You can see if yourDecTalk external supports anything faster by
sending a synth command directly to the synthesizer.  Try something 
like  the following:

echo "[:ra700]" >/sys/module/speakup/parameters/synth_direct

See if that doesn't help.

Gene

>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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