[DECtalk] Editing Dec-Talk Dictionary in Linux

[GUI Access]

As I recall, the firmware update files for this unit did come with a 
dictionary.  I don't have a physical unit to play with but I did dig 
into the firmware update.  The dictionary format for this unit is 
slightly different from the regular DECtalk dictionaries.  Presumably 
this was done to conserve space as the regular dictionaries are 
pretty wasteful as far as space is concerned.

I imagine it would be straightforward to write a command line program 
to modify the dictionaries; I have code which dumps regular DECtalk 
dictionaries.  Modifying these would be straightforward enough--you'd 
just have to add support for the smaller dictionaries for the DECtalk 
USB.

Getting just the modified dictionary back onto the UNIT would be the 
tricky part and I have no idea how you'd accomplish that.

GUI Access



>Hi All:  While this has nothing to do with singing, I hope if you please there
>are solutions.  I have a Dec-Talk U S B unit from Access Technologies near
>Sacramento.  When I had windows here, I had help from a gentleman 
>who walked me
>through flashing the unit.  After that the unit has more abreviations
>supposedly in a dictionary.  Anyway, now I completely got rid of 
>windows-and am
>running Linux with Speakup as a screen-reader.
>In the older hardware Dectalk, there were files on the hard-drive we could
>edit.  There are some really anoying exceptions which I would love to delete,
>such as
>IN
>inch
>or
>07-08-2005
>July 8 2 thousand and 5
>Since hardy any screen-readers in Linux have an exception dictionary, I hope
>there are ways to edit through a file or the unit.
>Right now, with speakup, I must run in rs232 mode.
>Also, 1 last strange thing, lately, if I interrupt scrolling or change
>consoles, I see a message:
>rtc lost some interrupts 1024HZ
>This message always appears near the bottom, line 24 or 25.
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions
>Hart
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