What's the advantage of a hardware synth?

[Ari Moisio]

Hi

  It is not necessary at all to have hardware synth to install LInux.   I 
have made several installations with serial console. this does not require 
specially tailored distributions.

   I also have serial console enabled if something goes wrong during the 
bootup.

  External synths have their advances but IMO they are not worth fo their 
price.

-- 
arimo

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Nick G wrote:

> Jonathan, it's number 6, really, that being the abbility to install linux
> without eyes.  The current technical limitations have it that way that the
> linux distributions need to be installed with a hardware synth because I
> don't believe Alsa loads on most isolinux instalation media, though correct
> me if I'm wrong.
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> From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jsd at clara.co.uk>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:41 PM
> Subject: What's the advantage of a hardware synth?
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>> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611081636470.1525 at darkstar.example.net>,
>>   randy turner <rturner222 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> do they still build any computers with the older isa slots?
>>> also has any company built any pci synths that will work in linux?
>>> what are the choices that are left for linux??
>>
>> I'm not visually impaired and I've not used a hardware synth myself,
>> but I'm curious.  What is the advantage of a hardware synth over a
>> software synth?
>>
>> I can think of a few possibilities, but I'm curious which are true and
>> are important for those who use or prefer hardware synths:
>>
>> 1.  It doesn't affect the computer's sound system, which can therefore
>> play other sounds unaffected by the TTS.  This could probably be
>> achieved for a software synth by using two sound cards.
>>
>> 2.  System startup messages can be spoken before the point when the
>> sound system and synth software is initialized and working.  This would
>> be overcome by the proposed "Spoken Boot" feature.
>>
>> 3.  Problems with installing and setting up a software synth.
>>
>> 4.  Prefer the sound of the hardware synth voice to those currently
>> available with software synths.
>>
>> 5.  Limitations of computer processor power or memory, although I doubt
>> this is an issue now.
>>
>> 6.  The hardware synth offers some feature not available in the
>> software synths.
>>
>>
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