Patch for DECTalk Express driver

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

     Try sending your command to /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth_direct. 
You can probably find it if that location's not right, but synth_direct is 
the file you want.
Jayson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: Patch for DECTalk Express driver


> I'll have to get back to you on this, but from my recollection of the 
> manual, the Express has no volume control except the knob on the unit. The 
> DECtalk PC does have a volume setting which is probably the command you 
> gave. I tried the command for the DEC PC with my Express and it didn't do 
> anything. I would have to look at the manual again to make sure.
>
> Is there a way to send commands directly to the synthesizer with Speakup? 
> If I echo them to /dev/ttyS0, speech becomes very sluggish and 
> unresponsive. The same thing happens as soon as hal starts. That only 
> seems to be a problem with the DEC Express. I have a Doubletalk LT and a 
> Trippletalk which don't do that. There used to be a file called "synth" 
> which let me do that but now it only contains the name of the synthesizer. 
> The synth name used to be in synth_name which disappeared.
>
> On 9/28/2009 4:53 AM, Chris Brannon wrote:
>>
>>> According to the manual, it does not have a way to adjust the volume
>>> with software.
>>>
>> How about the command [:vs DD ]?  Does that change the volume on your
>> unit?
>> (DD is a number).
>>
>
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