Which hardware synthesizer to buy?

[John covici]

Well, for my money, I wish you would do something like that -- sure
its nice to have the whole thing as modules, but when its built-in
there ought to be some finegling we can do.

on Monday 04/13/2009 Kirk Reiser(kirk at braille.uwo.ca) wrote
 > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Gaijin wrote:
 > 
 > > 	So, which synthesizer works with speakup these days.  It sounds
 > > like my LiteTalk serial and Mike's Apollo are no longer viable, and the
 > > DecTalk still requires special software to work.  Which model out there
 > > still works without a hitch, or which synthesizer is Kirk using?  I
 > > figure if something crops up with Kirk's synthesizer, I figure it'll be
 > > the first one to get the "Oops!  Better not do that," treatment.  Anyone
 > > know which squeaky wheels are getting the grease, or is speakup
 > > gradually losing it's "from power-up to shutdown" capability with the
 > > software synth?  I have enough set aside to get another synthesizer, and
 > > would rather drop the LiteTalk.  Maybe then I can work with the newer
 > > kernels.  How about it, Kirk?  Which hardware synthesizer do you use?
 > 
 > Well, the fact seems to be that I am using espeakup almost a hundred
 > percent of the time.  When I do use a hardware synth I have an old
 > LiteTalk and a serial TripleTalk.  However since William and I got
 > the espeakup working reliably I use it almost exclusively.
 > 
 > Even with a hardware synth we have nowhere near a power-up to shutdown
 > solution like we used to have.  From that perspective speakup is a
 > very sad distant relation to it's earlier self.  If we were to go back
 > and include that capability we would probably lose the in-roads we've
 > made into being made available on many distributions and tolerance to
 > the linux kernel community.
 > 
 >    Kirk
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