let me know when beta 3 is iso'd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Wegner" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@xxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:35 AM Subject: Automatic synthesizer detection > Hi, > > I'm trying to get the new sarge installer beta3 working > with SpeakUp and most comments had to do with the > synthesizer used. It seems the best selection would be for > a synthesizer probe at bootup where speakup would scan > through the list of its compiled in synthesizers, run the > probe routines and see which is connected, using the first > it finds. > > Are there any synthesizers in Speakup which cannot > reliably be probed? IE. a synth on a parallel or serial > port which cannot reply to a status request. Also, I > suppose the order of probing would be relevant as a > transport would probably reply to an sa's status request in > emulation mode so you couldn't do the sa probe first. Has > any work previously been done on this? > > S > > -- > Shane Wegner > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup