[DECtalk] dectalk express firmware
Tony Baechler
tony at baechler.net
Wed Jun 15 00:46:33 EDT 2005
Hi. Thanks for pointing this out. I have had the same problem a few times
but I had no idea that it was a bug in the firmware. Another thing I
noticed is that when I'm reading long documents, like books, it starts to
say a word, has a short pause and finishes. It isn't like a delay, it's
like the word is split when I know it isn't. An example is something like
"something." It will say "somet hing." It inserts a random space for no
reason. I tried the 4.6 firmware and didn't like it at all. If you have
any ideas on how to avoid the power cycle problem, I'm interested.
At 12:24 PM 6/14/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't know what the difference is, but I think there are some bugfixes. I
>once had a DECtalk with an older firmware from I think August of 96.
>Sometimes, for some reason, when reading a website it would just lock up. A
>power cycle was required to get it going again. I upgraded to 4.6CD and the
>problem went away. So I'd recommend you stick with what you've got in there
>right now. Note that if you like the way your DECtalk sounds now, you do
>not want to upgrade to the 4.6 versions from Force. In the opinions of
>several of us, Force took a DECtalk that was perfectly good and ruined it.
Tony Baechler
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