Thank you for clarifying. I think perhaps the tech support person who said
SSIL didn't work anymore had forgotten that Windows 98 was the operating
system being discussed.
I have been trying to use either keynote software speech or the braille note
with Kurzweil without success. It worked a few versions ago, but doesn't
work for me anymore even in Windows 98. A friend of mine can't get her
DEC-Talk Express to work with Kurzweil version 9 in Windows 98. Evidently
SSIL can work, but doesn't always. Should we keep fighting to install our
problem synthesizers?
I am also happy to find that Kurzweil can use hardware synthesizers in
Windows 2000 and Xp when the manufacturers bother to make a 32 bit driver.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Baum" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:19 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: my own questions about K1000
> The K1000 will support SSIL, but only for Windows '95, '98, or Windows ME
> since its a 16 bit standard and isn't supported in operating systems that
> are based on NT, such as NT, 2000, and XP. On those operating systems, the
> K1000 will directly support a small set of hardware synthesizers,
including
> DECTalk Express, DoubleTalk, and TripleTalk. This is all described in
> Appendix C of the reference manual.
>
> Stephen
>
> At 11:53 AM 2/23/2005, you wrote:
> >I have been told, and found it to be true in my experience, that the
latest
> >versions of Kurzweil aren't actually capable of using SSIL synthesizers
any
> >more. I realize that the drivers don't exist for some of them for use in
> >XP, but it sounded like they wouldn't work in older versions of Windows
> >either, even though you are asked if you want to install one. I don't
> >understand why they would say they don't work if they do, why they would
> >make them not work if there are drivers, or why if they don't work, why
the
> >installation would ask you if you wanted to install SSIL support for a
> >device. Can anyone give me some enlightenment?
> >
> >How have you succeeded in using a double talk, and in what version of
> >Windows with what software? Not that it really matters, since I don't
have
> >one.
> >
> >Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> >http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/
>
>
