Driver for Echo Speech Synthesizers

[Steve Holmes]

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Wow, I remember that box.  I used to use the Echo for several years
until I got a Speakout from GW Micro.  I got to where I couldn't stand
the squeaks and squocks when shutting up speech and one place where I
worked, I kept getting all kinds of wierd RF interference from a near-by
construction site.  

If the driver is stable, I would suggest giving it to Kirk and have him
include it in future Speakup versions.

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:53:55PM -0400, Garrett Klein wrote:
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> Hi Martin,
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> 	I actually already wrote a driver for the echo, which basically took the bns code, changed some constants, and added the necessary "glue" in the kernel Makefile and synthlist.h to declare it as a new synth. email me off-list and I'll send you the C source file and the relevant patches (though they might not work against the latest CVS speakup, depending on whether the order of lines has changed or not).
> 
> Garrett
> 
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:39:16PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > 	I am going to attempt to write a driver or actually a
> > pair of similar drivers for the Street Electronics external
> > speech synthesizers.  For those who haven't ever used them, they
> > are low-end synthesizers that were sold around 20 years ago.  I
> > have one that will turn 20 this year and a somewhat newer Echo
> > model that superceeded the first one and has a few pros and cons
> > over the older model.
> > 
> > 	I looked at the driver modules in the speakup source tree
> > and decided to look at the BNS module.  I have a question and may
> > have a few more before this is all over.  Does the Braille and
> > speak use the Control-E as the escape character for its speech
> > control commands?  The Echos also use that character, but mainly
> > I am asking so I better understand what I am looking at in the
> > source.
> > 
> > 	I am sure that the commands to change pitch and volume
> > are different, but they did look kind of similar to those of the
> > Echo.
> > 
> > 	Anyway, I think the fun is going to be in trying to make
> > the Echo which has an extremely simple command structure get
> > along with everything else.  I was impressed at how small the
> > drivers are and I hope I can do as well as Kirk and others do
> > when I have a go at trying to make the Echo work.  I have one at
> > work in addition to the two that I actually own, so there is an
> > incentive to make this work.
> > 
> > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> > Systems Engineer
> > OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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