Samuel: Samuel Thibault writes: > Gregory Nowak, le ven. 29 mars 2019 17:02:07 -0700, a ecrit: > > > people would either plug an > > > external device or even put an ISA card in their computer, which gives > > > them an additional serial port. > > > > The ISA cards also provided an internal speech synthesizer. > > Right, that's what I meant :) > The "additional serial port" was meant from a programming point of view. > Is the soft synth device similarly a serial device even today? I ask because I don't know, but also because the abstract should probably note that most users today use software speech. Best, Janina > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
