Well, for my money, I wish you would do something like that -- sure its nice to have the whole thing as modules, but when its built-in there ought to be some finegling we can do. on Monday 04/13/2009 Kirk Reiser(kirk at braille.uwo.ca) wrote > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
