driving a serial synthesizer through speech-dispatcher

[Karen Lewellen]

My understanding from the first post  is that the goal is using serial 
synthesizers  in more graphical settings comparative to how orca functions.
Would not speekup present limitations for such a goal?



On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, John G Heim wrote:

> There would already be code in speakup to talk to different hardware synths. 
> I don't know how portable that code is. But you could probably look at the 
> speakup code to see how to set the speech rate for a liteTalk for example. If 
> that code is portable, a large part of the work would already be done.
> On 2/7/20 1:05 AM, John Covici wrote:
>>  You can treat the serial port like a file (this is linux after all),
>>  just do open in the i nit section and write characters to the file.
>>  The name will be something like /dev/ttyS0 or similar.  Note the
>>  capital S.  As an example look at the espeak  driver, so you get all
>>  the things in the right places.
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, 06 Feb 2020 23:29:43 -0500,
>>  Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> > 
>> >  Right, this would require a speech-dispatcher module file. The thing
>> >  I'm not sure about is how to do the serial port I/O from
>> >  speech-dispatcher. The speech-dispatcher modules are .conf files, so
>> >  maybe the answer would be a separate program to expose the serial port
>> >  to speech-dispatcher modules, or a modification to the actual
>> >  speech-dispatcher code to do that.
>> > 
>> >  What I like about the synth_direct approach is that speakup already
>> >  does the heavy lifting, and speakup and gnome-speech would use
>> >  speakup's interface to talk to the synth, which would mean they both
>> >  wouldn't be setting parameters and causing a mess. The disadvantage is
>> >  it requires speakup to be loaded, which I already use anyway, so it
>> >  doesn't bother me personally.
>> > 
>> >  Greg
>> > 
>> > 
>> >  On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 11:10:24PM -0500, John Covici wrote:
>> > >  You might need to write a driver in speech-dispatcher, that would do
>> > >  exactly what you want.  I have been thinking about this for years, but
>> > >  never had the time to do it.
>> > 
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