question on using old external DECTalk

[al Sten-Clanton]

Gene, thanks!  I'm having other problems, but trying the command, it seemed
I sure got a lot of speed out of the thing.  I'll try some other
experiments.

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Gene Collins
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 12:09 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: question on using old external DECTalk

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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