What is the purpose of the optional /dev/synth device?

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

If you build speakup as modules, and use udev in a 2.6 kernel, the
device will get created for you.

It is useful if you have another app that needs to write to the synth.
However, the only example I have seen for it's use is an emacspeak
server for the doubletalk that was modified to use it so speakup and
emacspeak can be run on the same system.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:41:39PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> The speakup users guide recommends creating this if you are building software
> speech, but It can't be registered in a 2.6 kernel.  Furthermore, It isn't
> necessary to hear software speech with speakup so what is the purpose of
> creating /dev/synth?
> 
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