Kirk, I am working with two different embedded GSM modules and embedded hardware, both processor and speech. I keep hearing that speakup does not yet support any USB synthesizers, is that right? I have doubletalk RC8660 interfaced with an ARM7 processor and firmware code that implements a USB CDC (communication device class) serial port. This makes it generic to the OS as USB serial device, it can use standard windows and linux drivers for the serial port connection. I will soon be looking into how to make this USB device work with speakup, was wondering if there were any reasons why no USB drivers yet, it is due to lack of specs for the synthesizers or is there known stumbling blocks? Since USB devices are typically enumerated when hotplug runs the speech wouldn't be available immediately at boot time, but aside from that, shouldn't supporting standard USB CDC serial port be straightforward? It would also seem that existing driver code for doubletalk lite could be used and adapted for different port connection. Any tips or suggestions? How can we make it so speakup will just catch an exception, but not hard fail, if the port it is trying to access is not available yet? This would be the case of a USB device when at boot time it has not been enumerated during the hotplug initialization. Ideas? Thanks, Doug
