My understanding is that Speakup can't handle the TripleTalk USB when connected via USB. If my understanding is outdated, someone please correct it? *smile* Anyway, I was looking at the specs on this thing, and since I've been looking at both it and the RC Systems documentation for the chipset, I've been thinking that it should be absolutely trivial to support connection to the thing via USB, and the support necessary already exists in the Linux kernel (though probably not compiled-in for any major distribution I would expect!) The USB connection is probably just some silly USB-serial bridge chip. These things all pretty much work alike, and there's a general USB serial driver already to provide most of the guts. All that's missing is a thing pretty much like visor.ko to decide which endpoints to access. It should be really easy to do if someone's got one and is willing to poke at the USB bus while someone interprets the results and feeds them fresh code to try. The process can be simplified if someone can find out which bridge chip the thing uses. With libusb, the process can even be done in userspace where it's less likely to panic your kernel in the prodding phase before a kernel driver is written. *grin* I'd offer to assist with this but I can't afford a TripleTalk USB and would honestly be more interested in the DECTalk USB if I could afford it. (I would be willing to bet good money that a driver for one synth supports both if you know the device ID's!) Just some thoughts. I do not know that they haven't been already considered and rejected--I was just looking at the things today because I was looking for a cheap synth. I didn't find one. *frown* -- "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