From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-f45.google.com (mail-pb0-f45.google.com [209.85.160.45]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4930F1EF50C for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:56:06 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id mc8so2979924pbc.32 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:55:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HyD2TL9F6EW8hXiQFr0h1UDqYXg8mBaITlMkcPENSrg=; b=fHmISNusIta741wfNK3lf1d1uOKlRpynP3k7N002eimXzJJKsIaufuuQ9ITquSjdmb ZWnBxXEZLTbXe3ZU08mQDlGWHvNTxCVjaadCWoKDaqLAewMEEZthuRffAdMtOXB/yc5j odYZeZY2VgR6erq8MT3z9hBI1r9V/lPWOGUReoiRFqq+Zaj3uVjHdAm147Vanz1tpF7g QUduWpOhA4JhaxIiOw9Ej6EheEv1Ao+BQXVWKM5szd/lU5R00yYyJrw9Hr6grTZW8qwg vSqrmBPqhhr90XLKJ+G+4yqqhC/st85EF7OBmGwf5kwUJHlrWrhmGVYmDkC9xiH3LtKc ZY8w== Received: by 10.66.82.73 with SMTP id g9mr48558174pay.5.1355259359302; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (CPE-58-174-32-82.mjcz1.woo.bigpond.net.au. [58.174.32.82]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id vx2sm14307967pbc.33.2012.12.11.12.55.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:55:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50C79DA4.8010605@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:55:00 +1000 From: Arthur Pirika User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Are the days of hardware synths and speaking from boot numbered? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:56:08 -0000 Hi, I think the subject pretty much speaks for itself. With serial synths, and especially serial ports getting harder to find, with the only serials synths still being made new are the venerable doubletalks, should work be ramped up on getting software speech, somehow at kernel level? I know there was a project working on this, but not much has been done on it for a while. Related to this, I assume it's still possible to build speakup into the kernel, although most distributions package speakup as modules, thereby allowing messages from the moment of powerup? thanks, Arthur