Possible work around to the hardware synthesizer problem

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Shawn, maybe it might be easier and more universal to write a speech
dispatcher driver instead?  That way, if you use speechd-up, indexing
would work.  What do you think?

Shawn Kirkpatrick <shawn at shawnk.ca> wrote:

> I've written a program that will allow hardware synthesizers to be
> used with speakup even thoe the serial support seems to be currently
> broken. I wrote this program about a year ago when I thought this
> problem would be only temporary. Since it seems like the hardware
> synthesizer support is still broken and isn't going to be fixed
> anytime soon I thought I'd put it out there in case it can be of some
> use.
> The program is called speakupbridge.
> speakupbridge is a program which makes it possible for speakup to use
> external serial, parallel, or usb synthesizers. It does this by reading
> speakup's softsynth device and passing the text to the synthesizer.
> speakupbridge has the following features:
> * The ability to communicate with any device that can accept a string
> of text using a /dev interface.
> * The ability to define the commands used by the synthesizer in a
> user-editable configuration file.
> * Multiple synthesizer definitions in a single configuration file.
> * Change the pronunciation of words using a dictionary file (a feature
> speakup
> really should do itself).
> * Save and reload speakup settings for each defined synthesizer.
> For more information or to download the program please visit:
> http://www.shawnk.ca/speakup
> I haven't had a lot of time to work on or test this code lately so
> there's likely to be some rough spots. You'll have to compile the code
> but that should be easy enough. I've tested this with my serial Artic
> transport synthesizer and it seems to work. I don't use speakup
> regularly thoe (too many other missing/bbroken features) so this
> program really hasn't had any hard testing.
> This solution isn't perfect, you still won't get kernel messages from
> boot up but it least it should be possible to use a hardware
> synthesizer once the system is started and that's probably better than
> nothing at all.
> 
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