[DECtalk] DECTalk USB Demo2

Blake Roberts beroberts at hughes.net
Sun May 15 16:17:24 EDT 2011


Thanks Brandon for the quick response. I had no idea before hearing your
Dectalk USB recording that a utility is included that sends text andsinging
phonetics directly to the synth. Wow!
Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com
[mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 4:07 PM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DECTalk USB Demo2

it's on the cd but you can download it freely from access solutions. nvda
only works with internal synthesizers so no dectalk usb support. 

On May 15, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:

> Does the Dectalk USB work with NVDA? Is the utility that sends text 
> directly to the synth on the CD, or is it an extra purchase?
> Blake
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com 
> [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Alex H.
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 1:16 PM
> To: DECtalk Discussions
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] DECTalk USB Demo2
> 
> Hi Blake,
> 
>> From what I've seen, the DECTalk USB is still being sold at GW 
>> Micro's
> catalog, as well as on irti.net, an assistive tech site. It used to be 
> sold from chirpingbat.com for 50 bucks less, but when I sent an email 
> to inquire about it last summer, the message got rejected.
> 
> I'm mildly upset because about three years ago on Ebay, somebody sold 
> a DT USB slightly used for $400 in great condition, but at the time I 
> didn't even know the device existed, so had no idea to look for it.
> 
> Alex
> 
> On 5/15/11, Alex H. <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Hart,
>> 
>> I'm not sure about speakup, but I do know that you should be able to 
>> send text to the DECTalk USB as you would with the express. I don't 
>> have an express or USB, but when I do, I'm going to do some 
>> experiments with this.
>> 
>> Apparently, Emacspeak and the DECTalk USB had some issues with 
>> command errors from what I read on the Emacspeak list, but they seem 
>> to have been resolved.
>> 
>> Well, to add some intonation in the voice, you'd just use [:dv pr 200 
>> as 70 qu 70] That should be a bit better. Now only to have this stuff 
>> remembered on uppercase letters with speakup, and then have the pitch 
>> drop to normal after the uppercase letter. I think there's a way to 
>> get it working from what I read in the DECTalk USB manual from the 
>> Axsol website, but don't know how to go implementing that into a 
>> speakup driver.
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> On 5/15/11, Hart Larry <chime at hubert-humphrey.com> wrote:
>>> Well, yes, while I really like that demo, I wish I knew more about 
>>> how to get similar results here.
>>> Back when I first got this unit, I had a dule-boot system.  While I 
>>> was listening in JAWS, but eventually, I think in 2006 I completely 
>>> got rid of windows.  Now I am enjoying Debian Testing.  As one of 
>>> the skits says, "in the good old DOS days" at least all the DecTalk 
>>> files, including dictionaries were on the local machine.  So now 
>>> with this USB unit, can I get to these items?
>>> I
>>> remember I could just copy text or songs to com4.
>>> I
>>> would `love to add lots of intonation, if I only knew how?  Yes, I 
>>> know EmacSpeak has lots of support, but so far I am in Speakup, 
>>> where I am having lots of what I would call them, frustrations.  No 
>>> matter what I set caps-start and stop, I cannot get the pitch 
>>> ajustment on capitalization.  While arrowing through text, `many 
>>> times pitch, volume, and rate all drop considerably.
>>> I
>>> must ajust each back-and-forth for my settings to resume.
>>> So Alex, if your last name is simbolicly Linux, then that makes at 
>>> least
>>> 3
>>> of
>>> us on this list enjoying Linux.
>>> Thanks so much in advance for any suggestions, tips, and trix.  O, 
>>> yes, this unit is from Axsol Solutions.  Only time we upgraded 
>>> firmware was while I was in windows.
>>> Hart
>>> 
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