question on using old external DECTalk

[al Sten-Clanton]

Alex, this guy has a volume knob, a headphone jack, and a telephone-style
jack at one end and the jack for the adapter at the other.  It says DECTalk
in braille, but nothing more.

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 5:24 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: question on using old external DECTalk

Which dectalk is this? Is it the Express, or the older external model with
the 2 phone jacks in the back that preceded it?
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008
at 11:18:33AM -0500, al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> 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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