DecTalk External (decext) testers wanted!

[John Covici]

Does the bns even support indexing?  This is why read to end may not
work.  In regular speakup and also Dave's version, I get an immediate
shutup when I press the enter on the numpad.

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 20:42:21 -0400,
Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> If I may jump in here ... When using the bns, I have to issue the
> silence command (numpad-enter) once if speaking a single line, twice
> if speaking a large block of text. I have had to do this since I can
> remember, certainly a number of years before Okash's patches. Using
> read to end is something I didn't test until John mentioned it. When I
> do speakup+r, I just get a beep from my pc speaker, and nothing
> else. I've looked through the speakup help provided by speakup+f1, and
> don't see an option for read to end. I'm using the kernel I reported
> my recent tests with using Okash's speakup patches. I also am inside a
> text editor where I can use the arrow keys to move around.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 04:18:12AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > OK, so I use gentoo, so I built a 4.9.24 kernel, put in your
> > speakup2.tgz, the ttyexport.patch, and compiled with no problems.  I
> > rebooted and got speech, using spkout which I have built into the
> > kernel.  That is the good news.
> > 
> > There are some major problems, however.  If there is a lot of output,
> > it takes a very long time -- 30 seconds or more to shut up when I hit
> > the enter key on the numpad.  Now speakup uses rts-cts handshake, so I
> > wonder if things are working.  The other major problem is that
> > speakup-r is not working properly, it just reads along and when I
> > stop, the cursor is many lines down from where speech stops -- I
> > wonder if the input functions are working.
> > 
> > All in all, this is great for a first test, keep up the good work.
> > 
> 
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