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From: "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Software speech opinions
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:46:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00ce01c7b68f$f90ee530$b100a8c0@AveratecLaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D8A7E18-F2A9-442C-927F-3EAD0FC6A0C8@softcon.com>

That sounds like the utility called PcDisk that Blazie put out for use with 
the Braille & Speaks.
Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel@softcon.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: Software speech opinions


This is exactly how I worked out the Artic Technologies serial disk
transfer mode.  They sold a software pack you could buy for their
notetakers that would give you some additional capabilities.
The problem was, they wanted several hundred dollars for the floppy
drive their system used.
(although you could turn your pc into a floppy for the note taker if
so desired) This is the program I wrote my own driver for (though I
never finished it, so it's not really distributable)
But, it's easy enough to pretend to be the drive, and watch what the
device sends back.
Lots of drivers are written using this approach.
And, I see no reason why usb devices should be any different.


On Jun 24, 2007, at 1:04 PM, C.M. Brannon wrote:

> "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca> writes:
>
>> What I meant was, if PCs don't have serial ports then synths will be
>> made for USB, and then its a software issue. They will not become
>> obsolete because of USB, in fact USB is arguably much better.
>
> The problem with the current offerings is that the manufacturers
> are unwilling to give out programming docs.  Hence, no speakup
> support.  I won't do business with those kind of people, even though
> the Triple Talk is well within my budget.  I would suggest that others
> do the same.
>
> I wonder about the possibility of reverse-engineering one
> of these synths using a Windows system.  For example, usbsnoop is a
> win32 program that can monitor traffic to and from USB devices
> (see http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/).
>
>
> -- Chris
>
>
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Keith Hinton
 ` Jan Buchal
 ` Doug Sutherland
   ` Gaijin
     ` Doug Sutherland
       ` C.M. Brannon
         ` Travis Siegel
           ` Glenn Ervin [this message]
           ` Doug Sutherland
       ` Gaijin
         ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Gaijin
             ` Doug Smith
           ` Doug Sutherland
             ` Gaijin
           ` Glenn Ervin
             ` Doug Sutherland
               ` Glenn Ervin
                 ` Steve Holmes
     [not found]             ` <20070626042409.GA25331@cm.nu>
               ` Glenn Ervin
                 ` John Heim
                   ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
                     ` John Heim
                       ` Glenn Ervin
                       ` Scott Berry
                         ` John Heim
                           ` Scott Berry
                       ` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
               ` Doug Sutherland
                 ` Doug Sutherland
                   ` Glenn Ervin
                 ` John Heim
                   ` Butch Bussen
               ` John Heim

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