Hi all. I'm wondering if it's possible to drive a serial synthesizer through speech-dispatcher? My goal here is to use orca to output to a serial synthesizer. While speech-dispatcher itself has no facility a far as I can tell to communicate through serial ports, something like cat could be used to send a text of string to the serial port for the synthesizer to speak. This is crude, and there is no way to interrupt speech until it completes. An even better approach is to use /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth_direct for the speech output. This would use speakup settings in use for the synthesizer. The problem with this is the same as with the cat command; no way to interrupt speech, at least until the todo items in /sys/accessibility/speakup are resolved, and maybe not even then. Interrupting could probably be done by sending the silence command for the synthesizer in question to /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth_direct, to cause the synthesizer to stop speaking, and flush its buffer. Again, simply invoking speakup's interrupt command by sending something to /sys/accessibility/speakup/filename would make this synthesizer generic. Has anyone here done what I'm thinking of? If yes, can you please describe your approach? Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
