linux and speakup installation

[Angelo Sonnesso]

What about a USB to serial interface?
Would that work with a lite talk?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: linux and speakup installation


> Well, I for one, love hardware speech for previous reasons mentioned.
> The only good thing I can say for software speech is portability.  A
> laptop would be much easier to use and carry around if you don't have
> to lug a synth box around and hook up.  Up to the present, you cannot
> use software speech to review boot message if your kernel panics or
> when doing a brand new install from off-the-shelf distro CD's.  It was
> mentioned recently that serial ports are going away except for high
> end modles and I think that is also criminal if not abominal!  I think
> the only USB synth out there is the tripple talk and I don't think the
> specs are publicly available yet for development of a synth driver for
> Speakup.  God Damn those non disclosure agreements anyhow!
> 
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