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Hi gang, Many years ago Benetech (or perhaps they were still called Arkenstone) released a bunch of hardware TTS drivers for Windows. I suspect they were open source. If this would be of interest, and nobody else recalls what I'm talking about, I can try to track down a pointer to it. They might be the basis of a SpeechDispatcher hardware driver engine. Peter On 6/13/2011 5:39 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: A while ago, I expressed interest in developing a speech dispatcher module to support hardware synths in general. I was thinking of doing something like the generic module. I then got distracted with more job search issues and now a full time gig but there seems to be more interest here so I will dig up my notes I kept so far and see if I can start somethingup again. The problem for me now is while I'm out here on the road, I don't have a hardware synth with me and I don't have any serial ports on my laptop. However, the USB to serial converter may be an interesting idea and I could get my Speakout from home and bring it out here and see if I can get going with something. I would gladly accept some collaberative help with this. Since it involves speech dispatcher, we could take some of this talk to the speech dispatcher list or I could set up a private group to cover this stuff in developer detail. This does sound interesting again. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 02:51:47AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:Hi, Snip: However, if one could develop a module for speech dispatcher which could talk to the modern USB ports, those hardware boxes could find a nice home again. Reply: I'm not sure a generic speech-dispatcher module would do it here. Many of the newer USB synths like the Trippletalk USB need a driver to bbewritten for them to operate under Linux, and to this date no one has actually written a Linux driver for them. The serial devices like the Dectalk Express, from what I can tell, don't work using a serial to USB adapter so it looks like USB support for those devices isn't possible either. However, I do agree if we are going to support hardware synths at all we should probably integrate that support into something like speech-dispatcher rather than via Emacspeak. Cheers! _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp_______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp --
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