Speakup in Linux Open Source Summit

[Okash Khawaja]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, 13:26 Samuel Thibault, <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
wrote:

> 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.


Thanks everyone for your input! I have submitted the proposal. Response
will come on 13 May.

Best regards,
Okash