Speakup in Linux Open Source Summit

[Samuel Thibault]

Janina Sajka, le lun. 01 avril 2019 05:29:06 -0400, a ecrit:
> 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?

No, it never has. The data is directly fed to userland.

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

Indeed.

Samuel