Well, I'd love to help, if I could. I don't have anything to test it on, so I'd be diving in with a knowledge of c/c++ and some idea of the kernel's workings. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield http://tds-solutions.net Twitter: sorressean On Apr 5, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
