tripletalk (was 4DOS)

[Kerry Hoath]

Curtin is building an embosser that will be affordable with a speech 
interface.
It's still in prototype;
release is years away.

info on http://www.cucat.org/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: tripletalk (was 4DOS)


> what is a brailler curtain?
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:29 PM
> Subject: Re: tripletalk (was 4DOS)
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>> we have a usb doubletalk circuit and evaluation board and we'll give the
>> eval board to whoever can write a driver for it.
>> It uses the ftdi usb2serial bridge and the v8660 chip.
>> It works with Jaws except the rate command goes up to 13 not 9.
>>
>> we want to use this board in a brailler Curtin Uni wants to make but we
>> don't have anyone able to write usb interface logic for the thing.
>> I guess this could run in userspace or something.
>> anyone who wants to write a driver get in touch and we can arrange to
>> provide the evaluation board we have built.
>> the synth has both usb and serial ports, it takes power off the usb.
>> headphones out only to keep the size down.
>> Regards, Kerry.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: tripletalk (was 4DOS)
>>
>>
>>>I can't tell you what the exact hardware is because I don't remember
>>> or maybe never knew.  It is I suspect a small pci board which can be
>>> placed in a computer or a separate box just like the Accent's were.
>>> It has interfacing circuitry that tie the pci bus and/or the USB uart
>>> to a RC Systems Doubletalk chip.  I don't know what Randy is calling
>>> that chip but it is based on the v8650 board but made into a LSI chip.
>>> That same chip is used in the bookport, book currier and a number of
>>> other products. The uart also services the rs-232C connector.
>>>
>>> It is true that Access Solutions were not forth coming in the
>>> beginning.  I suspect they thought they could make it on their own
>>> with the Microsoft Windows community but soft synths have been gaining
>>> a lot of prominence and so the hardware synth world is shrinking
>>> radically.  They have become much more helpful over the years.  I just
>>> haven't had time to write drivers to support the pci and usb portions
>>> of the device.
>>>
>>> As for the firmware, it is the same or almost the same as on the
>>> Doubletalk family of synths.  How Randy missed the bug is beyond me
>>> and for that matter him as well.  It's obviously a not very often used
>>> feature of the firmware but one I particularly like because it allows
>>> us to find out which version and form of the firmware is being used.
>>> Those version/parametre strings are slightly different for the groups
>>> Randy has sold to and supports.  For example the original Microtalk
>>> version of the firmware has a secondary flush command '^y' which only
>>> flushes up to the next newline/carriage return characters for software
>>> that supported it.  That gave ASAP the ability to provide a feature
>>> which could allow one to quickly scan through a document being read by
>>> just tapping the shift key to immediately move on to the next line.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
>>> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
>>> phone: (519) 661-3061
>>>
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