Speakup in Linux Open Source Summit

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Mon Apr 1 05:29:06 EDT 2019


Samuel:

Samuel Thibault writes:
> Gregory Nowak, le ven. 29 mars 2019 17:02:07 -0700, a ecrit:
> > > people would either plug an
> > > external device or even put an ISA card in their computer, which gives
> > > them an additional serial port.
> > 
> > The ISA cards also provided an internal speech synthesizer.
> 
> Right, that's what I meant :)
> The "additional serial port" was meant from a programming point of view.
> 
Is the soft synth device similarly a serial device even today?

I ask because I don't know, but also because the abstract should
probably note that most users today use software speech.

Best,

Janina

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Janina Sajka

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