Are the days of hardware synths and speaking from boot numbered?

[deedra waters]

I dont think hardware synths have worked for a while so to answer your 
question yes. Also speaking from boot hasn't worked in quite a while 
either. if it works for people at all
  I've not had a hardware synth and speaking from boot since about 2009.

On 12/11/2012 12:55 PM, Arthur Pirika wrote:
> Hi,
> I think the subject pretty much speaks for itself.         With serial 
> synths, and especially serial ports getting harder to find, with the 
> only serials synths still being made new are the venerable 
> doubletalks, should work be ramped up on getting software speech, 
> somehow at kernel level? I know there was a project working on this, 
> but not much has been done on it for a while.
> Related to this, I assume it's still possible to build speakup into 
> the kernel, although most distributions package speakup as modules, 
> thereby allowing messages from the moment of powerup?
>
> thanks,
> Arthur
>
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