On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Gaijin wrote: > So, which synthesizer works with speakup these days. It sounds > like my LiteTalk serial and Mike's Apollo are no longer viable, and the > DecTalk still requires special software to work. Which model out there > still works without a hitch, or which synthesizer is Kirk using? I > figure if something crops up with Kirk's synthesizer, I figure it'll be > the first one to get the "Oops! Better not do that," treatment. Anyone > know which squeaky wheels are getting the grease, or is speakup > gradually losing it's "from power-up to shutdown" capability with the > software synth? I have enough set aside to get another synthesizer, and > would rather drop the LiteTalk. Maybe then I can work with the newer > kernels. How about it, Kirk? Which hardware synthesizer do you use? Well, the fact seems to be that I am using espeakup almost a hundred percent of the time. When I do use a hardware synth I have an old LiteTalk and a serial TripleTalk. However since William and I got the espeakup working reliably I use it almost exclusively. Even with a hardware synth we have nowhere near a power-up to shutdown solution like we used to have. From that perspective speakup is a very sad distant relation to it's earlier self. If we were to go back and include that capability we would probably lose the in-roads we've made into being made available on many distributions and tolerance to the linux kernel community. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
