According to Al Sten-Clanton: # My follow-up question, then, is whether it's possible to revise Speakup # to work as well with USB ports as it does with serial ports. (I know # that whether somebody would have the time to do it is another matter.) I will leave the final answer to this question up to a kernel developer. I do know that although there are indeed modules that work with specific devices, i.e. device drivers that work with specific chips, speech synthesizers generally don't fall into this category, as they usually just take plain text + maybe some markup that they handle internally and convert it into speech, in much the same way as a software speech synthesizer does. So something in userspace that could communicate over USB would be far more flexible and portable, and staying out of kernel memory wherever possible is generally a good thing as well. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie" _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
