[DECtalk] new to the list

[Tony Baechler]

Hi.  What if you load the Express drivers supplied with the 
unit?  That lets it emulate a PC and works with the Vocal-Eyes PC 
drivers.  Does that give you the same control?  What about sending 
strings to the com port the Express is on?  How did you build your 
dictionary?  I know about commands to get it to make sounds but I 
don't know how to make a dictionary it will use.  I never got it to 
beep but I got it to do DTMF tones.

At 05:39 AM 3/1/2006, you wrote:
>Not hardly!  I still use DOS 6.2 every day, both for work and for
>pleasure.  As a matter of fact, I have written some JAWS dictionary
>entries that cause my DECTALK express to make sounds when it encounters
>hard carriage returns and multiple blank spaces so that I can easily and
>efficiently edit documents, similar to those used by the old PROWORD
>software which was written for the Apple II and IIGS if anybody's old
>enough to remember that stuff.
>
>Anyway, I have both a DECTALK express for my Windows based machine and
>a DECTALK PC for my DOS based machine.  I like them both, although I
>prefer the greater control I have over the PC.