PC Speaker synth for Speakup?

[Alex Snow]

On my 486, I ran two leads from the pc speaker terminals on the mainboard to
my soundcard, and now have amplified pcspeaker.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete" <persuric at ameritech.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: PC Speaker synth for Speakup?


>
>   I used to use an old screen reader called seekline in dos.  It had an
> option to use the P C speaker.  It hogged up around 300 K of conventional
> memory though, and the rate I don't think was much faster than 200 to 250
> words per min or so.  It sounded kind of like the doubletalk or monolog
> speech.  Tinytalk came whith a demo version of speech that would work
whith
> the P C speaker.  The bad thing is the volume wasn't vary lowd, so you had
> to have a quiet place to use either one.
>   Pete
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: PC Speaker synth for Speakup?
>
>
> > I've heard some programs use the PC speaker before, and there somewhat
> > understandable.  It depends on the coding.  There used to be this
program
> > for dos that would use the PC speaker to say the time, and some Star
Wars
> > frazes.  It was somewhat understandable, but not todally.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:42 PM
> > Subject: PC Speaker synth for Speakup?
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Maybe, but I'm not sure it would be understandable.  I mean, the PC
> > > speaker is really small and quite limited.  I recall there used to be
a
> > > kernel patch to use the PC speaker as a sound card, so it is
> theoretically
> > > possible, but again, it would be hard to understand and very likely
> > > low-volume.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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