Shawn, maybe it might be easier and more universal to write a speech dispatcher driver instead? That way, if you use speechd-up, indexing would work. What do you think? Shawn Kirkpatrick <shawn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've written a program that will allow hardware synthesizers to be > used with speakup even thoe the serial support seems to be currently > broken. I wrote this program about a year ago when I thought this > problem would be only temporary. Since it seems like the hardware > synthesizer support is still broken and isn't going to be fixed > anytime soon I thought I'd put it out there in case it can be of some > use. > The program is called speakupbridge. > speakupbridge is a program which makes it possible for speakup to use > external serial, parallel, or usb synthesizers. It does this by reading > speakup's softsynth device and passing the text to the synthesizer. > speakupbridge has the following features: > * The ability to communicate with any device that can accept a string > of text using a /dev interface. > * The ability to define the commands used by the synthesizer in a > user-editable configuration file. > * Multiple synthesizer definitions in a single configuration file. > * Change the pronunciation of words using a dictionary file (a feature > speakup > really should do itself). > * Save and reload speakup settings for each defined synthesizer. > For more information or to download the program please visit: > http://www.shawnk.ca/speakup > I haven't had a lot of time to work on or test this code lately so > there's likely to be some rough spots. You'll have to compile the code > but that should be easy enough. I've tested this with my serial Artic > transport synthesizer and it seems to work. I don't use speakup > regularly thoe (too many other missing/bbroken features) so this > program really hasn't had any hard testing. > This solution isn't perfect, you still won't get kernel messages from > boot up but it least it should be possible to use a hardware > synthesizer once the system is started and that's probably better than > nothing at all. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
