software speech for speakup

[Charles Hallenbeck]

This discussion is improving as it proceeds, I think!

One more factor to consider is the desirability of offloading peripheral
tasks to peripheral processors so that the central processor(s) do not
have to service absolutely everything that happens inside the
cabinet. Input-Output tasks are ideal candidates for offloading from the
CPU. That is done in IDE devices, in video cards, in real modems (as
opposed to Win modems), in keystroke processing inside the keyboard,
etcetera. Software speech synthesis is a fairly heavy duty processing
load, and if it can be handed off to an 80186 or whatever, that is very
good news for the CPU.

Chuck


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