I am going to attempt to write a driver or actually a pair of similar drivers for the Street Electronics external speech synthesizers. For those who haven't ever used them, they are low-end synthesizers that were sold around 20 years ago. I have one that will turn 20 this year and a somewhat newer Echo model that superceeded the first one and has a few pros and cons over the older model. I looked at the driver modules in the speakup source tree and decided to look at the BNS module. I have a question and may have a few more before this is all over. Does the Braille and speak use the Control-E as the escape character for its speech control commands? The Echos also use that character, but mainly I am asking so I better understand what I am looking at in the source. I am sure that the commands to change pitch and volume are different, but they did look kind of similar to those of the Echo. Anyway, I think the fun is going to be in trying to make the Echo which has an extremely simple command structure get along with everything else. I was impressed at how small the drivers are and I hope I can do as well as Kirk and others do when I have a go at trying to make the Echo work. I have one at work in addition to the two that I actually own, so there is an incentive to make this work. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
