Driver for Echo Speech Synthesizers

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Good evening,
I can't answer your exact question, but I can tell you that you are
definitely on the right track using the bns driver. I happen to know
that at least with the older bns models (640, original tns) using the
echo driver in many screen access packages would also drive the bns. You
wouldn't have a lot of the fancier features like indexing, but it did
work. In other words, the command sets are very similar.

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It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
over. (History repeats itself)
Joseph C. Lininger
Oh alright, here's the *actual* signature...

And so it came to pass that on Tue, 30 May 2006, Martin McCormick said

> 	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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