Possible work around to the hardware synthesizer problem

[John G Heim]

WWhat is indexing?


On 02/26/2016 06:26 PM, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 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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