Connecting hardware synthesizer to speakup without serial port.

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

I use a hardware synth all the time with USB to serial converters, but
they have to use the ftdi chip set.  The only problem is that it does
buffer more than I would like.

Mike Ray <mike at raspberryvi.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> No, speakup and the Apollo, or any other hardware speech-synthesiser
> will not work with a USB to serial adaptor.
> 
> I believe this to be because a genuine serial port (RS232) and speakup
> use the hardware hand-shaking pins (RTS and CTS?), to communicate
> readiness to send and recieve data.  The USB to serial adaptors will
> either not support this hardware hand-shaking or it takes a differently
> written program to use it.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 19/04/2015 16:43, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I thought that it will work with a USB to serial adapter, but you may not 
> > get the initial computer boot-up messages because the USB to serial driver 
> > would not have been loaded yet.
> > Glenn
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "łukasz golonka" <wulfryk1 at gmail.com>
> > To: <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 6:01 AM
> > Subject: Connecting hardware synthesizer to speakup without serial port.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi. I have apollo II synthetiser. I would like  to connect it to
> > speakup, but i have computers without physical serial port. Usb to
> > serial interfaces don't work with speakup of course. Is it possible to
> > connect speakup to apollo. I've heard about possibility to connect
> > external synthetiser to speakup using express card to com adapter, but
> > my computer doesn't  have  physical express card port, so i must again
> > use express card to usb converter.
> > Thank you for help.
> > Lukasz.
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> 
> 
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> Michael A. Ray
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