Debian install with Software Speech?

Brent Harding bharding at doorpi.net
Tue May 29 18:31:44 EDT 2007


Can't the new Dec Talk USB, I know it's not the same thing as the express, 
work with a serial port as well as USB, if you told it to use the express 
driver? I don't think it helps much if you don't actually have the serial 
port to use.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Debian install with Software Speech?


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> Also, I doubt the kernel console approach would work with a usb to 232
> converter, unless the debian netinst iso loads up the drivers for
> those as part of the boot process. Even if it does, the debian
> installer is dialog based rather than being command-based.
>
> Greg
>
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> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:10:01AM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
>> Hiya,
>>     The reason I couldn't use a hardware synth is precisely because I 
>> don't
>> have a serial port on any of my machines.  It's downright annoying, but I
>> wish there were support for USB to serial adaptors, or something along 
>> those
>> lines.  Either that, or preferably USB synths directly.
>> Thanks much,
>> Zack.
>>
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