I can help out with the windows portion. Jaws does have a c API. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup@xxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> speech, or not. I seem to recall someone attempting something similar >> a while back, but I haven't heard anything about it for a while now, > > Well I was trying to do something similar though not > exactly the same. My project, which I still haven't given > up on was to write a Windows program which would emulate a > synth. The program would be used by Vmware's serial > emulation layer to basically appear to a hosted Linux box > as an Accent SA on ttyS0. The synth would interface with > Jaws and speak normally basically resulting in my being > able to run Linux on the laptop without carting around the > Accent. > > The problem I ran into was though I am a compitent C > programmer on *nix systems, Windows is another matter > entirely. I looked at doing it with Cygwin, I really like > that platform but last I checked, opening /dev/ttyS0 didn't > result in getting a serial port and I couldn't figure out > how to Talk to Jaws via cygwin, IE. does Jaws have a C API? > Could do it with SAPI but then you lose eloquence. > > So yeah, don't think that's what the parent was interested > in but this'll get done eventually. This accent will die > one day or serial ports won't be available and that'll be > that. > > Shane > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
