[OT] emulating a hardware synth

[Brent Harding]

Ah, I was trying /dev/ttys0, 1, etc, thinking it wanted linux notation. I 
suppose I have to use com 3 and 4 to keep it within standard limits, as this 
machine only has com1 anyways. I tested it with 3 and 4, the emulator on 3 
and connecting with hyper terminal on 4, and if I typed "this is a test" and 
hit enter, it took about 5 seconds, but JFW did eventually speak it. I don't 
know if using a system like this would be too great or if it'd be possible 
to install something like Trixbox which is based on CentOS that has no 
speech support on another machine, but at least we could independently use 
Fedora in a virtual machine now with this, maybe.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup at csy.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth


> You install it along with jfwapi.dll and cygwin1.dll
> included in the archive.  The libraries loaded provide
> /dev/comx emulation.
>
> S
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:56:20PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
>> Hmmm, but do you have to install this into the complete cygwin package,
>> or where does the file that makes the port come from since Windows
>> doesn't have /dev?
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup at csy.ca>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You need to use com0com to create a virtual serial port
>>> pare.  Either that or as the parent suggested, connect a
>>> machine via null-modem and do the speakup install that way,
>>> no vmware required.  *shrug* I didn't know about this
>>> echo-talk.  It's never come up here afaik.
>>>
>>> Shane
>>> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 08:41:31AM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
>>>> So, do you just use this on an untaken serial port and tell VMWare to
>>>> also use that serial port so they would end up virtually connected? I
>>>> thought there was one called echo talk or something using the JFW API 
>>>> on
>>>> the Windows side and simulating an echo synth to whatever is connected 
>>>> to
>>>> that port.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup at csy.ca>
>>>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>>>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:45 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Fyi, just put a new version of the Windows Acntsa emulator
>>>>> up:
>>>>> <http://www.csy.ca/~shane/winaccent.zip>
>>>>>
>>>>> This one gets the timeouts right so now works with Speakup
>>>>> either under an Vmware session or via a remote serial
>>>>> connection.
>>>>>
>>>>> Question to the speakup devs, why does the ACNTSA driver
>>>>> use a timeout of 0.16 seconds and rely on that to start
>>>>> transmitting even during keyboard io where you want to
>>>>> transmit as soon as a key is pressed, Ie with <esc>=F in
>>>>> the init string and 0x0d when a key is pressed.  That way
>>>>> there is no 0.14 second delay after a key is pressed before
>>>>> the letter is read allowed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Shane
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