I'm sure your solution would be more complete however note that vmware can emulate a serial port that can be connected to a named pipe. This might illiminate a layer of complexity or add one. Sorry that isn't much help but it's something to think on. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@xxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:31 AM Subject: [ot] Windows programming > Hey all, > > I have a Windows app I'd like to have a go at writing. > Some here may be interested as well. It'd use the com0com > project: > http://com0com.sourceforge.net/ > > to emulate an accent SA or dectalk and pass the input of > the serial port to sapi, basically enable softspeech via a > virtual serial port. This could be assigned to vmware and > Speakup would be able to use it as a hardware synth. > Basically I want a self-contained laptop without having to > hall around the Accent SA. > > Problem is, I'm used to programming under Linux where such > an emulator would be trivial. Open a /dev/ttySx device, > poll it, translate the input and call the speech functions. > I'm just wondering what the simplest api to use under > Windows would be for a Linux programmer without too much of > a learning curve. I've looked at mfc and Windows c++ code > and it looks like nothing I've ever encountered. I'm > thinking a system like cygwin or minw32 would work but how > complete is their emulation of serial ports (termios etc.) > select/poll and do these unix like systems support the > SAPI. > > Shane > > -- > http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
