Patch for DEC-talk Express driver

William Hubbs w.d.hubbs at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 21:50:20 EDT 2009


Hi again Tony,

can you check out version 2.17 of the driver?  Kirk sent me some
documentation that says that the command to set the volume on the
express is

[:dv g5 xx] where xx is from 60 to 86.

Also I think I have better ranges and offsets for several of the
commands now.

William

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:13:02PM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did the test as you described below. I didn't have any problem. The 
> pitch went back to where it was supposed to be. As far as I'm aware, it 
> doesn't have any relative pitch adjustment commands. I'm not a 
> programmer, but what if you just do some basic addition at the time that 
> caps_start is called? In other words, make the driver relative since the 
> unit doesn't support that. Just take the current pitch and add 50 to 
> determine the correct caps_start value at the time that you review upper 
> case text. Anyway, the pitch didn't go back to the factory default, so I 
> don't think this is a problem.
> 
> On 9/28/2009 8:09 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > 1) start speakup with the dectalk express.
> > 2) change the pitch away from the factory default.
> > 3) review some text that has both upper and lower case characters.
> >
> > What I'm expecting you to find is that the pitch goes back to the
> > factory default, and is now out of sync with what speakup thinks the
> > pitch is until you change it again.
> >
> > The way to fix this would be relative pitch settings for the caps start
> > and caps stop commands.  Does the dectalk express support this?  And if
> > so what are the commands?
> >    
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup



More information about the Speakup mailing list