Re: [orca-list] Anybody using DECtalk (hardware or software) with Orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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Yeah, I know this was a big problem in the past when it came to
getting this stuff to work with Speakup.  You would think such
manufacturers of such devices would be apt to sell more units if they
would share the specs and get whoever to build drivers for any
platform, thus allowing this device to be compatible with more
platform, get it? I guess folks like Axol Solutions don't get it.
This seems to be a common problem with so many hardware makers; they
are scared someone might try and clone the hardware and I suppose
that's a valid concern but at the same time, software compatibility
suffers even more when specifications aren't publically available.

You know, if we could get something like speech dispatcher or open tts
to talk to a DEC or speakout via the serial or some other USB synths,
then Orca, emacspeak and even speakup would benefit.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 01:16:25PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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> ON the Dectalk USB, I don't believe the USB bit works in Linux. The
> company behind this synthesizer used to employ a lot of NDAs meaning
> that open source drivers could not legally be written. If this is still
> the case, I wouldn't get my hopes up. You can use it via the serial port
> in Dectalk express emulation mode, but if that's what you're going to do
> you'd be better off finding a used Dectalk express which would be a lot
> cheaper.
>
>
> On 04/15/2010 01:02 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > At the moment, I don't think so.  Orca presently works through
> > gnome-speech services and Speech Dispatcher.  Not sure if any other
> > systems are available.  I have heard of people using emacspeak servers
> > and one of them might work with DEC Talk USB.  I would like to see
> > OpenTTS be worked up to include some external synthesizer support and
> > I believe that OpenTTS will be the way to go in the future.  Reminder
> > that OpenTTS will be the future replace ment of Speech Dispatcher.  We
> > have some work to do to get Orca to recognize the new name but I think
> > we should head that way instead of sticking with whatever Brailcom
> > might fiddle with in the future.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:28:58AM -0500, Alex H. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > Thanks for the reply. I'm thinking of getting the DECtalk USB, as I
> > > don't have a serial port, and the USB is probably more readily
> > > available. Can Orca/Emacspeak/speakup use that?
> > > Thanks
> >
> > > Alex
> >
> > > On 4/13/10, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> > > > David E. Price <deprice cs utah edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > However, my memory is that it got a little squirrely if you used it with
> > > > > > Orca under gnome and emacspeak running in a console. Things would lock up
> > > > > > if you tried to use emacspeak from within gnome when Orca was running.
> > > > > > So,
> > > > > > I use my DECTalk with emacspeak in a console and a number of different
> > > > > > software synthesizers with Orca.
> > > >
> > > > To avoid these conflicts, you could run Emacs with Emacspeak inside Gnome.
> > > > You
> > > > might have to write a little script to tell Orca to turn off when focus is
> > > > in
> > > > an Emacs window, however.
> > > >
> > > > As an aside, I was browsing Emacs documentation and noticed a manual entry
> > > > about DBUS support under Emacs. Given that the entire desktop accessibility
> > > > infrastructure is moving to DBUS, this could raise interesting
> > > > opportunities.
> > > >
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