interesting experiment.

[Alex Snow]

Hi All,
I was just thinking: Would it be possible to right drivers to use the pc
speaker as a synth in speakup? Then for those who don't have a hardware
synth that would work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: interesting experiment.


> Another problem is that sound modules don't load until the filesystems are
> mounted. And viavoice isn't a kernel level synth, besides the fact that it
> can't be anyway. This I would think is why Speakup doesn't support
> software synths as of yet.
>
> Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there!
>
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>
> > But could I use it with Speakup, to hear the voice only after the system
> > boots?
> > Or is not supported at all? no  drivers, etc.
> >
> > Teddy,
> > orasnita at home.ro
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: interesting experiment.
> >
> >
> > > Hi teddy.
> > > viavoice won't be supported by speakup as I understand it because it's
a
> > > nonfree package and the source code isn't freely available.
> > > as for the problem with the dec-talk pc, the issue is, needing
dictionary
> > > files to be loaded into the synth at boot time.
> > > You can't do this until the file systems are properly mounted. So, if
one
> > > gets a kernel panic, you wouldn't know about it because you wouldn't
have
> > > speech from kernel load.
> > > hth
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shaun Oliver
> > >
> > > Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the
> > > > > only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
> > > > >                 -- Wernher von Braun.
> > > > > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au
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> > >
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