If you wrote a hardware speechsynthesizer emulator, it would be useful
in another way. If you are booting a server, most of which have serial
ports, you could use a null modem cable to make a laptop act like a
hardware speech synthesizer. In other words, anyone could build their
own hardware speech synthesizer by installing your emulator on a laptop
and connecting it to the other machine with a null modem cable. If you
did it right, it would work with
jaws too.
On 03/02/2016 03:02 PM, Haden Pike wrote:
Correct, I forgot about serial ports. I wonder if I could write software to emulate one of the supported hardware synthesizers.
Haden Pike
Computer Science
University of Kentucky
Class of 2016
On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good point. Actually, I believe Haden said he's doing this in a
virtual machine. In that case, just give the guest a virtual serial
port, and connect to it from the host with minicom/screen/telnet.
I haven't used slackware for the last 11 years or about, so can't give
you an exact boot sequence. However, when you get to a boot prompt of
the boot loader, pass:
console=ttyS0,115200
to the kernel, and you should hopefully be all set.
Greg
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:44:16AM -0600, John G Heim wrote:
One more thing that might be worth considering is a serial console
install. This would probably be way easier than manually
reproducing the steps performed by the slackware installer. you'd
need another computer and a null-modem cable. Oh,and both machines
have to have serial ports.
Tip: Null-modem cables are a glut on the market in used computer
stores. New, they are about $5. But there is no reason to pay more
than a dollar for one of those thingsat a used computer store.
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