Yes, it does need a driver and it did back then too. dbltalk.com We uses a driver too, Your serial port might not be enabled in the bios.These days you usually have a serial port on the mobo on a ribbon cable going out to a bracket on the box they don't come standard as readily available ports, but the better mobos still have them.
Just turn it on and select doubletalk in window-eyes in your devices and if it's active it'll work.
At 06:41 PM 11/22/2011, you wrote:
I have a DoubleTalk LT that ran on dos for years, so how do I get something it understands to come out the serial plug of a modern computer. I hooked it to a Win 7 64 computer and heard nothing, nada, zilch, except that sad long suffering tone when it says DoubleTalk Ready when I switch it on. smile. It has its own internal drivers for dos, that was its great feature, didn't need a certain baud rate, duplex or half duplex, whatever, sent from VocalEyes.On 11/22/2011 1:18 PM, Chris Belle wrote:And get yourself a double talk or tripple talk, image for windows and dos, a usb drive or other drive with less than 120 g in size, and make those backup images so you can do your own restores when Hanah isn't in the mood 'grin'. Every blind person should be doing this even if Doug thinks dos is dead 'grin'. Or use a linux variant. Or use another windows system and a removeable caddy system, or esata, that's more risky as if you had a virus it could infect your other machine, so you should run something like copy-wipe with a low level os like dos on the drive before putting it in the windows machine. But I can't stress how important it is to make system back-ups and i got lazy and didn't do one since august, but atleast I had that one. At 08:16 AM 11/22/2011, you wrote:We'd need to be massikistic to look forward to 7.5.3; after this madness of 7.5.2! I'm truly sorry for what it did to your music machine. Now we know why we have to agree to the terms that they bear no responsibility for loss of income; before we can install their bombs. Indigo L On 11/21/2011 11:15 PM, Chris Belle wrote:I am now using window-eyes 7.2 refresh. I suspect that since window-eyes 7.5, something's been very broken with we, I have had really funny stuff, it all started with the major re-write with 7 then got better with the 7.2 refresh, then got a whole lot worse again, with 7.5, and then really got upset with 7.5.2. I've just been trying to work in 7.5.2, and even though they put the access hack back in with a script, it's mushy. it feels jitery, that's the only way to explain it, like the speech can't keep up with me also stuff reported earlier, botched installations, I actually ghosted back, and silly me didn't keep a copy of 7.5.1 around can't lay my hands on that, so I can't go back to that. also there seems to be some kind of conflict with sonar, eudora and window-eyes, my main tools. It's the damnest thing I've ever seen. With window-eyes 7.5, once sonar just quit working period, and I had to re-install. Why would gwmicro take the registry values out of a perfectly working tool and make it have to happen with a script? This also fowled up jaws and jsonar, man what aggrivation in the middle of a very productive time too. I know that bugs have to happen, but this is ridiculous. I really like certain things about we, the mouse exploration methods, but we feels like a house being eaten up by termites, or as my friend Indigo put it, or a beloved wife who's lost her mind and you hope she'll come right, I bout fell out of my chair when he said that. My tool I've depended on for years even though it had it's weaknesses is no longer the most stable screen reader on the market. I sure don't want to make anyone mad, because there is one cat in our midst I know who's worked their butt off to make we better, but I can't be the only one this stuff is happening to. Well, one more sma and we'll see. maybe there's a 7.5.4 or a 7.5.5 ready in a coule months to address some of these strange issues. I am so sick of we can't reproduce the problem 'grin'. I hope you other we users on here have had a better experience than me, today's been the pits 'grin'. For all your audio production needs and technology training, visit us at www.affordablestudioservices.com or contact Chris Belle cb1963@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or Stephie Belle stephieb1961@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for customized web designFor all your audio production needs and technology training, visit us at www.affordablestudioservices.com or contact Chris Belle cb1963@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or Stephie Belle stephieb1961@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for customized web designFor all your audio production needs and technology training, visit us at www.affordablestudioservices.com or contact Chris Belle cb1963@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or Stephie Belle stephieb1961@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for customized web design
