Software speech opinions

[Travis Siegel]

This is exactly how I worked out the Artic Technologies serial disk  
transfer mode.  They sold a software pack you could buy for their  
notetakers that would give you some additional capabilities.
The problem was, they wanted several hundred dollars for the floppy  
drive their system used.
(although you could turn your pc into a floppy for the note taker if  
so desired) This is the program I wrote my own driver for (though I  
never finished it, so it's not really distributable)
But, it's easy enough to pretend to be the drive, and watch what the  
device sends back.
Lots of drivers are written using this approach.
And, I see no reason why usb devices should be any different.


On Jun 24, 2007, at 1:04 PM, C.M. Brannon wrote:

> "Doug Sutherland" <doug at proficio.ca> writes:
>
>> What I meant was, if PCs don't have serial ports then synths will be
>> made for USB, and then its a software issue. They will not become
>> obsolete because of USB, in fact USB is arguably much better.
>
> The problem with the current offerings is that the manufacturers
> are unwilling to give out programming docs.  Hence, no speakup
> support.  I won't do business with those kind of people, even though
> the Triple Talk is well within my budget.  I would suggest that others
> do the same.
>
> I wonder about the possibility of reverse-engineering one
> of these synths using a Windows system.  For example, usbsnoop is a
> win32 program that can monitor traffic to and from USB devices
> (see http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/).
>
>
> -- Chris
>
>
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