Actually, the way we do the softsynth device currently is we have our own synth command set and then translate that for espeakup/espeak and speechd-up for speech-dispatcher. One could do the same thing for serial synths driven by a userspace driver reading from a ttyusb structure. Of course just saying it doesn't make it done and in the box. A whole set of user space drivers would need to be written to talk to the various synths. We would also have to flesh out the usb2serial driver command set to support all the possible commands that might be needed for various serial synths so it would be a lot of work but could be done. As was just recently pointed out we don't even have indexing support in espeakup to allow use of the read-all feature of speakup. Meaning I'm not sure where all this programmer help is going to come from. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061
