Who was it who was planning on making a utility to load onto a P D A to act as a hardware synth? That sounded promising. Glenn ----- 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 6:48 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 E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11660 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11660 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/
