[DECtalk] dectalk external question

Brent Harding bharding at doorpi.net
Wed Mar 1 18:16:43 EST 2006


Did anyone actually put a dectalk into a phone line like this? I doubt it 
could do anything too useful like transfer extensions or take voicemail. If 
you wanted it to tell an account balance, it would need to obtain it 
somewhere.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk external question


> Hi,
> You have one of the old DECtalks.  I've never seen one of these so don't
> have connector info, but I've heard Speakup under Linux can use these so 
> if
> you ever want someone to take it off your hands...
> Anyway, you're wrong, any connector with pins or plugs showing is a male,
> any jack or serial connector without pins showing is a female.  The phone
> jacks, as I understand it, are not used for connection to a computer. 
> These
> old DECtalk units could interface with a phone line to give callers spoken
> information, provided you had or could write the appropriate software.  I
> think they could even do menu-based stuff, E.G. "For the song of the day
> press 1, for the DECtalk demo review of the day press 2, for your current
> account balance press 3, to use a time machine to make it so that Digital
> would never have even thought of selling DECtalk press 4, etc."  Thus,
> probably the reason that DECtalk versions to this day have touchtone 
> dialing
> commands.
> Jayson.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hank smith" <hanksmith4 at earthlink.net>
> To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:56 PM
> Subject: [DECtalk] dectalk external question
>
>
>> hello I have a dectalk external its before the express
>> it is running firmware 1.8 when you turn it on it has test touchtones
> before
>> it says
>> "dectalk version 1.8 is running"
>> anyways I am having trouble finding out what exact cable I need to hook
> this
>> up to a computer to use with a screen reader
>> it has 2 phone jacks one with a phone simbol and the other with a minus
> buy
>> it
>> btw I just had a custom cable made a mmj cable and it isn't the one that
>> goes off to the side
>> the other 2 ports it has are one port that says
>> comm
>> the other port has a square buy it
>> these are 25 pin think its femail its the port with the pins showing.
>> anyways what cable do I need to have custom made to interface this thing
>> with the computer to use it as a external synth?
>> I am going to be returning the mmj cable and I need to tell the folks 
>> what
>> kind of cable I need.
>> any help  is so so greatly appreciated.
>> thanks
>> hank
>>
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