No, speakup and the Apollo, or any other hardware speech-synthesiser will not work with a USB to serial adaptor. I believe this to be because a genuine serial port (RS232) and speakup use the hardware hand-shaking pins (RTS and CTS?), to communicate readiness to send and recieve data. The USB to serial adaptors will either not support this hardware hand-shaking or it takes a differently written program to use it. Mike On 19/04/2015 16:43, Glenn / Lenny wrote: > Hi, > I thought that it will work with a USB to serial adapter, but you may not > get the initial computer boot-up messages because the USB to serial driver > would not have been loaded yet. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "łukasz golonka" <wulfryk1@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 6:01 AM > Subject: Connecting hardware synthesizer to speakup without serial port. > > > Hi. I have apollo II synthetiser. I would like to connect it to > speakup, but i have computers without physical serial port. Usb to > serial interfaces don't work with speakup of course. Is it possible to > connect speakup to apollo. I've heard about possibility to connect > external synthetiser to speakup using express card to com adapter, but > my computer doesn't have physical express card port, so i must again > use express card to usb converter. > Thank you for help. > Lukasz. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ >From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
