Automatic synthesizer detection

Automatic synthesizer detection

[Shane Wegner]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the new sarge installer beta3 working
with SpeakUp and most comments had to do with the
synthesizer used.  It seems the best selection would be for
a synthesizer probe at bootup where speakup would scan
through the list of its compiled in synthesizers, run the
probe routines and see which is connected, using the first
it finds.

Are there any synthesizers in Speakup which cannot
reliably be probed?  IE. a synth on a parallel or serial
port which cannot reply to a status request.  Also, I
suppose the order of probing would be relevant as a
transport would probably reply to an sa's status request in
emulation mode so you couldn't do the sa probe first.  Has
any work previously been done on this?

S

-- 
Shane Wegner
http://www.cm.nu/~shane/

Re: Automatic synthesizer detection

[hank smith]

let me know when beta 3 is iso'd
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Wegner" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@cm.nu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: Automatic synthesizer detection


> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get the new sarge installer beta3 working
> with SpeakUp and most comments had to do with the
> synthesizer used.  It seems the best selection would be for
> a synthesizer probe at bootup where speakup would scan
> through the list of its compiled in synthesizers, run the
> probe routines and see which is connected, using the first
> it finds.
> 
> Are there any synthesizers in Speakup which cannot
> reliably be probed?  IE. a synth on a parallel or serial
> port which cannot reply to a status request.  Also, I
> suppose the order of probing would be relevant as a
> transport would probably reply to an sa's status request in
> emulation mode so you couldn't do the sa probe first.  Has
> any work previously been done on this?
> 
> S
> 
> -- 
> Shane Wegner
> http://www.cm.nu/~shane/
> 
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Re: Automatic synthesizer detection

[Kirk Reiser]

I started working on individual synth detection a long time ago but
because of other bugs at the time I put it aside and rewrote the
drivers to just pretend they have the right synth when they find
something that talks on the serial port they are probing.  Some synths
you can look for specific commands and responces to determine you have
the correct synth but on others I have never found ways of deciding
specific synth characteristics.

If someone wanted to take on writing probing and detection code that
would be really cool.  Currently, it isn't even on my list of things
to do.

  Kirk

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: Automatic synthesizer detection

[Sean Murphy]

Hi.

I have just installed a DecTalk Express to the new 2.4.24 kernal that has
speakup installed into it which looks like the version that is being used by
the sarge installation cd.  When you switch to a DECTalk Express you get the
following error:

error on command line string, ra 375.

DECTalk seems to work fine, but I thought I would bring this to your
attention.

Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Wegner" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783@cm.nu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:35 AM
Subject: Automatic synthesizer detection


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get the new sarge installer beta3 working
> with SpeakUp and most comments had to do with the
> synthesizer used.  It seems the best selection would be for
> a synthesizer probe at bootup where speakup would scan
> through the list of its compiled in synthesizers, run the
> probe routines and see which is connected, using the first
> it finds.
>
> Are there any synthesizers in Speakup which cannot
> reliably be probed?  IE. a synth on a parallel or serial
> port which cannot reply to a status request.  Also, I
> suppose the order of probing would be relevant as a
> transport would probably reply to an sa's status request in
> emulation mode so you couldn't do the sa probe first.  Has
> any work previously been done on this?
>
> S
>
> -- 
> Shane Wegner
> http://www.cm.nu/~shane/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>