Hi, You can't use a USB to serial converter to use a serial synthesizer with Speakup. It has something to do with the hardware. I don't really understand the exact problem myself, you'd have to ask Kurk. All I know is that it doesn't work. If you are running Linux on a laptop with no serial ports, the only option you have is software speech. Equal causes can produce very unequal effects. Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Raul A. Gallegos said > Hi. I have a laptop which has zero serial ports. If I purchase a USB to > serial converter and connect a speak-out to it will this be active > immediately so that I can use the speak-up to install Linux with speech? Or > does the USB to serial get configured after boot up meaning I would not have > access to the serial port right away? > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
