[DECtalk] dectalk external question

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
Ok maybe I was wrong.  But if I recall correctly the DECtalk Express drivers
won't load unless they can find a DECtalk Express on the specified com port.
That implies some method of probing a serial port for a DECtalk Express
which the older monsters most likely wouldn't support.  Do you have one of
the old units and know that the Express drivers will definitely work with
it?
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] dectalk external question


> Jayson, you're wrong on this.  Please try checking on things like
> this first since your response is misleading.  Yes, I know you had no
> way of knowing but it implies the thing is useless when in fact it
> isn't.  I know for sure that Window-Eyes and Vocal-Eyes will support
> it.  They still both support the Echo PC.  I have no idea on JFW
> obviously.  Also, if it comes with drivers, it's possible to trick it
> into being a DEC-Talk PC.  For example, if I load the factory
> supplied Express drivers, I can use the Vocal-Eyes DEC PC driver.  I
> prefer that driver because speech flows better.  You can do a similar
> method with Windows but you'll probably get warnings about memory
> management and DOS compatibility mode.  Also, there is Linux Speakup
> as you mentioned which could use it and possibly Emacspeak.
>
> At 10:12 PM 3/1/2006, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >As for it working with Jaws, if you mean JFW, you're probably out of luck
> >there.  I'd certainly bet that this old dinosaur wouldn't be supported in
> >any way by JFW or any other modern Windows screen reader.  That sounds
like
> >a very, very old version of DECtalk, probably from the mid 80's.  That
was
> >probably before SSIL was even thought of, and if Windows even existed it
> >couldn't have been very popular.  We have an old Kurzweil reading machine
> >with DECtalk speech and modern screen readers can't interface with it.
ASAP
> >for DOS can interface with the Kurzweil so could probably also work with
the
> >old DECtalk dinosaur you have.  My first suggestion would be for you to
get
>
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