question on using old external DECTalk

[Alex Snow]

So that sounds like an Express.  The older one is just a large box 
with a power switch on the front and a volume/phone jacks/1/8" audio 
output/2 25-pin serial ports on the back.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 
06:20:47PM -0500, al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> 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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