[DECtalk] dectalk external question

[Tony Baechler]

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