No, there ain't any access to bios.
Well, there used to be a rigged up thing if you want to use another machine,
and a telecomm program, and if the bios is text
based, it can take the text output but that company is out of business.
That requires two machines, and running dos, and it's not that great.
As far as accessing at dos level, ;you certainly
can do that, and it's still very useful to teching.
Yeh, even in the modern windows world, ms dos is
still very handy for some tasks, and barring
that, some flavors of linux, because as I've said
over and over again, we really don't have true
access to windows because we don't have access to
all levels of it, not the console mode, or safe
mode, so it's not completely accessible.
We can't use the standard tools sighted users use
to get out of trouble lower down, so we have to rig our own.
I bellieve Randy is still selling doubletalks over at rcsys.com
He's dropped the price, they're a little less
well made than they used to be, but they're worth
having if you want to do your own teching, and wwant some low level access.
At 11:23 AM 8/28/2010, [email protected] wrote:
Is there a unit with usb input to a laptop and seriel into a device like
doubletalk that lets you access BIOS with speech? And low end dos? If so,
can you provide a link to such a device? So we can have a look at it.
Take care
Terje Strømberg
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Belle [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 3:43 PM
To: Tyler Juranek; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: DoubleTalk LT and Window-Eyes
No, the doubletalk pc was an isa card,
laptops do not have these legacy card slots.
YOu would need a doubletalk lt or other serial or usb interfaced device.
At 08:33 AM 8/28/2010, Tyler Juranek wrote:
>Hey all,
>i used to use a doubletalk PC synthisizer on windows 95 in 2000.
> Is there a way i can put it here on my xp laptop?
> Thanks,
> Tyler
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Chris Belle <[email protected]>
>To: "Samuel Wilkins" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
>Date: Saturday, Aug 28, 2010 6:23:19
>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, beyes 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 beusing 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.
> > >
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