[OT] emulating a hardware synth

[Tyler Littlefield]

I can help out with the windows portion. Jaws does have a c API.

----- 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: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth


> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> speech, or not. I seem to recall someone attempting something similar
>> a while back, but I haven't heard anything about it for a while now,
> 
> Well I was trying to do something similar though not
> exactly the same.  My project, which I still haven't given
> up on was to write a Windows program which would emulate a
> synth.  The program would be used by Vmware's serial
> emulation layer to basically appear to a hosted Linux box
> as an Accent SA on ttyS0.  The synth would interface with
> Jaws and speak normally basically resulting in my being
> able to run Linux on the laptop without carting around the
> Accent.
> 
> The problem I ran into was though I am a compitent C
> programmer on *nix systems, Windows is another matter
> entirely.  I looked at doing it with Cygwin, I really like
> that platform but last I checked, opening /dev/ttyS0 didn't
> result in getting a serial port and I couldn't figure out
> how to Talk to Jaws via cygwin, IE. does Jaws have a C API? 
> Could do it with SAPI but then you lose eloquence.
> 
> So yeah, don't think that's what the parent was interested
> in but this'll get done eventually.  This accent will die
> one  day or serial ports won't be available and that'll be
> that.
> 
> Shane
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