Theoretically, I'd say this should work. However, I don't know of anyone's who's tried this approach, let alone succeeded with it. I can say that I've run Speakup inside a Mac VMware Linux quite successfullly in the past as recently as February of 2019. As I recall I had Orca working inside the vm as well, except that the Mac return/enter key didn't work for some reason I never figured out. Is there some particular reason you want a hardware synth for speech in your Mac vm? I ask because you could perfectly well use espeak, perhaps even espeak-ng with Speakup in your Linux vm. That's how I was set up when I had this configuration. I know of others with similar setups. Some even consider the Mac graphical desktop with a Speakup driven Linux vm the ultimate combo. Best, Janina Reece O'Bryan writes: > Just to confirm, I’m going to need a serial adapter to plug in to my USB hub connected to my MacBook, then connect a hardware synthesizer to the cereal. Doing it this way would I be able to use the hardware synthesizer inside of virtualBox running Debian and Speakup? I assume that it should in theory, but if not because of the virtualization, then plan B is doing the exact same thing while booting from something like Ubuntu on the USB. > > Thank you, > > -Reece > > > On Dec 17, 2020, at 2:04 PM, Zachary Kline <zkline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Samuel, > > > > No, they definitely don’t. As far as I’m aware they use an entirely different interface. The adaptor exposes /dev/ttyUSB0 but the synthesizer is still in serial/rs232 mode. There’s a hardware toggle switch to select one mode or the other. > > Best, > > Zack. > > > >> On Dec 17, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Zachary Kline, le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 10:55:13 -0800, a ecrit: > >>> but doesn’t support using synths in native USB mode. > >> > >> Don't these simply expose a /dev/ttyUSB0 port? > >> > >> Samuel > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
