USB synthesizers

[Kirk Reiser]

Actually, the way we do the softsynth device currently is we have our
own synth command set and then translate that for espeakup/espeak and
speechd-up for speech-dispatcher.  One could do the same thing for
serial synths driven by a userspace driver reading from a ttyusb
structure.  Of course just saying it doesn't make it done and in the
box.  A whole set of user space drivers would need to be written to
talk to the various synths.  We would also have to flesh out the
usb2serial driver command set to support all the possible commands
that might be needed for various serial synths so it would be a lot of
work but could be done.  As was just recently pointed out we don't
even have indexing support in espeakup to allow use of the read-all
feature of speakup.  Meaning I'm not sure where all this programmer
help is going to come from.

   Kirk
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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061