Speakup Issues

[Steve Holmes]

I would say "Ditch the old ISA support." Sorry Greg:).  I say this for
the old simple reason that ISA buses aren't even made anymore AFAIK.
I realize there may still be some older legacy hardware out there but
after some point, it really isn't practical to support it anymore.
People have made similar remarks about serial ports in general but I
have a feeling that serial ports are living a longer life than ISA
buses and if this support is keeping Speakup out of the Kernel
spotlight then we should dump it.  

Greg, I have a USB Tripple Talk USB here and would love to be able to
use it with Speakup and I think it would be quite responsive provided
the USB synth support is good and tight.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 06:32:51PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:59:24PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > Another question is that we still have drivers for old internal ISA
> > synthesizers, such as the doubletalk pc, dectalk pc, accent pc and
> > keynote pc. Are these being used?
> 
> Yes, I still have an old box here with an isa slot with a doubletalk
> pc. I mainly use it these days to access other linux boxes, because
> I'm very fond of my doubletalk, and don't want to give it up if I
> don't have to. I have nothing against espeak/espeakup, it's just that
> hearing that "doubletalk pc found" message invariably brings a smile to my
> face. Also, maybe it's my imagination, but that doubletalk pc on old
> hardware seems to still be slightly more responsive than
> espeak/espeakup on modern hardware. I have also idly toyed with the
> idea of getting one of these:
> 
> http://www.arstech.com/item--usb2isa.html
> 
> and found myself wondering if speakup could be made to drive a doubletalk pc
> through this converter.
> 
> Greg
> 
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