Well, I'm going to be using a Netbook, and Netbooks don't have Serial ports. Does this mean I will have to only use it with my tower base? If not, could anyone recommend any serial to USB adapters that will work and tell me how to configure Window-Eyes to use them. By the way, sorry Chris for accidentally sending that to you personally by mistake. I'm always doing that. Thank you.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Belle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 28 August 2010 12:23 To: Samuel Wilkins; [email protected] Subject: Re: DoubleTalk LT and Window-Eyes Hey Samuel, Good choice on the doubletalk. We've used those for years, and all our new machines we carefully bought and configured have bios level serial ports, ;yes you can still get those. they allow for low level access with dos and linux, and also high level access with windows, Obviously, your usb based serial port won't allow the lower level access, but rest assured, it's worth having an external speech synth for just the reasons you outlined, speech crashes more often with sapi than it does with direct dedicated text to speech hardware. if you want to spend a little more money, a tripple talk with both usb and serial port will give you the best of all worlds, one cable for power and data if you go the usb route, and no adapters, and if your ever planning on ;using another screenreader like jaws, which has very bad serial port support for the doubletalk, they haven't fixed their drivers and probably never will. so you'll want that usb support for an external synth if your going to work in windows. if your going to not use jaws at all, and just use window-eyes, your ok with a doubletalk. Also, I am told to stay away from certain chip sets with serial to usb adapters, gw and others can tell you more, but certain ones don't work very well. But usb to serial adapters do indeed need drivers. But native serial port machines, where you have a header on the motherboard, and a ribbon cable to a bracket with a serial port do not need any extra drivers. This is why I don't like to buy bargain machines, and I like to pick out motherboards which have the legacy support I desire along with the newer hardware advancements even if it costs you a little more, your better off in the long run if your going to do anything non-standard, and not just follow the herd and use a hardware speech synth. Good luck with it all. At 05:34 AM 8/28/2010, Samuel Wilkins wrote: >Hello everyone, I will be getting a Doubletalk LT speech synthesizer >to use with Window-Eyes, as I will be using some very resource >intensive software applications and I feel that a hardware >synthesizer will eat up fewer resources than a software one. >Furthermore, I may be going onto the student radio station at >University and I feel that the hardware synthesizer will be good for >that, as well as for presentations. Finally, I have chosen this >particular synthesizer because it runs on a plug and play system, >IE, it does not require drivers installed. The synthesizer runs via >a serial port, however I have been told by RC Systems that it will >work with a serial to USB converter. My question is, if I want to >use it with a serial to USB converter, what port do I tell >Window-Eyes it is connected to so it will find it? Thank you in advance. > > >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your >message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your >message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You >can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. WARNING!!! This email could contain innocent phrases which, if taken out of context, or read from an existing inclination to be hostile, or an overly politically correct world view could induce cursing, abusive language, or other indications of less than desirable behavior in a public venue. No ill will is intended. The sender takes no responsibility for mis-interpretation or otherwise extrapolated extended meaning, intent, or purposes implied or imagined from said phrases. The receiver of any such email containing such phrases is solely responsible for good interpretation and intelligent deployment of subsequent responses to the above communication. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
