From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Greylist: delayed 479 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at befuddled; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:19:45 EST Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (hurricane.the-brannons.com [64.62.188.119]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B651EF512 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:19:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (75-147-128-10-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [75.147.128.10]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C24283949 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:12:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50C7A190.1030800@the-brannons.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:11:44 -0800 From: deedra waters User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Are the days of hardware synths and speaking from boot numbered? References: <50C79DA4.8010605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50C79DA4.8010605@gmail.com> 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 21:19:45 -0000 I dont think hardware synths have worked for a while so to answer your question yes. Also speaking from boot hasn't worked in quite a while either. if it works for people at all I've not had a hardware synth and speaking from boot since about 2009. On 12/11/2012 12:55 PM, Arthur Pirika wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup