Hi It is not necessary at all to have hardware synth to install LInux. I have made several installations with serial console. this does not require specially tailored distributions. I also have serial console enabled if something goes wrong during the bootup. External synths have their advances but IMO they are not worth fo their price. -- arimo On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Nick G wrote: > Jonathan, it's number 6, really, that being the abbility to install linux > without eyes. The current technical limitations have it that way that the > linux distributions need to be installed with a hardware synth because I > don't believe Alsa loads on most isolinux instalation media, though correct > me if I'm wrong. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jsd at clara.co.uk> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:41 PM > Subject: What's the advantage of a hardware synth? > > >> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611081636470.1525 at darkstar.example.net>, >> randy turner <rturner222 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >>> do they still build any computers with the older isa slots? >>> also has any company built any pci synths that will work in linux? >>> what are the choices that are left for linux?? >> >> I'm not visually impaired and I've not used a hardware synth myself, >> but I'm curious. What is the advantage of a hardware synth over a >> software synth? >> >> I can think of a few possibilities, but I'm curious which are true and >> are important for those who use or prefer hardware synths: >> >> 1. It doesn't affect the computer's sound system, which can therefore >> play other sounds unaffected by the TTS. This could probably be >> achieved for a software synth by using two sound cards. >> >> 2. System startup messages can be spoken before the point when the >> sound system and synth software is initialized and working. This would >> be overcome by the proposed "Spoken Boot" feature. >> >> 3. Problems with installing and setting up a software synth. >> >> 4. Prefer the sound of the hardware synth voice to those currently >> available with software synths. >> >> 5. Limitations of computer processor power or memory, although I doubt >> this is an issue now. >> >> 6. The hardware synth offers some feature not available in the >> software synths. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >
