Speakup and serial adapter cards

[D. Curtis Willoughby]

This is getting to be a big problem!

I have a new computer without a serial port.  To use a hardware
synthasizer like a Doubletalk LT I must use a USB to serial
adapter or a PCI-E card.  This computer does not have PCI slot(s).
If this combination of "cannot do" restrictions is not fixed,
serial hardware synthesizers are doomed to become obsolete.

I guess there are a few USB synthesizers, and software speach is
still well not wonderful.  I have not been able to establish
whether the few PCI-E cards can manage IRQs and I/O addresses
so they are treated like internal serial ports, but I suspect
they cannot.  Is it not possible to modify speakup so that it
can use any serial port on the machine, rather than just ttyS0
and ttyS1?  Would you developers please look at a solution for
this one?  Please!

D. Curtis Willoughby

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> Nope, Speakup in now way supports pci serial cards.
>
> >Hello,
> >I know that speakup cannot work with synths connected through a USB to serial 
> adapter, however I would like to confirm whether speakup can use serial ports p
> rovided by a PCI-express or PCI serial adapter card? I am most interested in th
> e PCI-Express adapter cards.
> >
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