I suppose that, in a sense, that's exactly what a speech synthesizer is, whether it's internal or external. But that's being glib. One shouldn't have to go to such an extreme with a general purpose card. Glenn Ervin at Home writes: > From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net> > > I wonder if it would help if the programmers of the software speech would > allow the speech to come through a soundcard of its own. > I have used 2 sound cards in a computer at the same time before without any > problems. > Glenn. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Whitley CTR Cecil H" <WhitleyCH.ctr at cherrypoint.usmc.mil> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:21 AM > Subject: RE: Software synths > > > Hi Janina, > I agree that there is an issue with keeping the speech stream out of the > music stream. I actually had a thought on that when I read your message. I > have 5.1 surround sound, it would be possible to put the voice stream to the > rear speakers and therefore keep it separate from the music stream coming > through the front speakers. I don't know if any of the software synth > developers would be interested in enabling this as an option, but it is one > possible solution. A "separate" sound device like "voice" in the mixer > might also be an option, but i'm not sure if that would address all issues. > It would allow recording software to supress that device for it's incoming > data stream. > > Don't get me wrong, I have no bias against hardware synths and I do wish > development on them would continue. It would be so nice to have a firewire > or usb connected hw synth! Especially one that the manufacturer would > publish enough documentation for to enable a speakup/yasr/emacs speak driver > to be written. I guess even a PCI hw synth would be helpfull, but PCI like > ISA before it will eventually go away. > > Regards, > > Cecil > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org
