USB synthesizers

[Tyler Littlefield]

Well, I'd love to help, if I could. I don't have anything to test it on, so I'd be diving in with a knowledge of c/c++ and some idea of the kernel's workings.
		Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
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On Apr 5, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> 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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