Huh, I never considered looking for a datasheet! Hey, their v-stamp product looks pretty cool. It looks like it's designed for hobbyist and prototyping applications. Almost as useful as an AVR on a DIP carrier. Especially useful because, well, I don't do SMT soldering very effectively. I'm blind, you know. *grin* There's probably a method for doing it, but I've never learned it. Hmm, this defines the protocol, but I wonder how much of this protocol is required by the average synthesizer. Some of these commands are, I'm positive, not used on most hardware synthesizers. The last DoubleTalk I saw definitely didn't have voice recorder features. *smile* I've actually considered just trying to buy an old serial-fed Accent, but this is a much better solution. (With the right tweaking, the accent can sound IMO almost as good as the Keynote Gold, which is my preference.) On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:55:59PM +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote: > Good idea > Doubbletalk docs can be found at > http://www.rcsys.com/Downloads/rc8660.pdf for 8660 chip > /Per > > T. Joseph CARTER wrote: > > >Just wondering, does anyone happen to have some programming docs for some > >of the external speech synthesizers? I was thinking about a little > >project that would listen to a serial port and parse the codes used by > >something widely supported (DoubleTalk and Accent come to mind) so that a > >person can do things like successfully flash a BIOS using one of the old > >school DOS screen readers. > > > >I know a few people who do this successfully using real old school > >synthesizers to go with the screen readers, but I haven't got one, and I > >really would prefer not to listen to (let alone pay for) a DoubleTalk ever > >again if I can avoid it. *grin* > > > > -- > Per Sjöholm > Spanga, Stockholm, Sweden > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list