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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:34:45 -0000 If you wrote a hardware speechsynthesizer emulator, it would be useful in another way. If you are booting a server, most of which have serial ports, you could use a null modem cable to make a laptop act like a hardware speech synthesizer. In other words, anyone could build their own hardware speech synthesizer by installing your emulator on a laptop and connecting it to the other machine with a null modem cable. If you did it right, it would work with jaws too. On 03/02/2016 03:02 PM, Haden Pike wrote: > Correct, I forgot about serial ports. I wonder if I could write software to emulate one of the supported hardware synthesizers. > > Haden Pike > Computer Science > University of Kentucky > Class of 2016 > > > >> On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: >> >> Good point. Actually, I believe Haden said he's doing this in a >> virtual machine. In that case, just give the guest a virtual serial >> port, and connect to it from the host with minicom/screen/telnet. >> >> I haven't used slackware for the last 11 years or about, so can't give >> you an exact boot sequence. However, when you get to a boot prompt of >> the boot loader, pass: >> >> console=ttyS0,115200 >> >> to the kernel, and you should hopefully be all set. >> >> Greg >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:44:16AM -0600, John G Heim wrote: >>> One more thing that might be worth considering is a serial console >>> install. This would probably be way easier than manually >>> reproducing the steps performed by the slackware installer. you'd >>> need another computer and a null-modem cable. Oh,and both machines >>> have to have serial ports. >>> Tip: Null-modem cables are a glut on the market in used computer >>> stores. New, they are about $5. But there is no reason to pay more >>> than a dollar for one of those thingsat a used computer store. >> >> -- >> web site: http://www.gregn.net >> gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc >> skype: gregn1 >> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. >> >> -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- John G. Heim; jheim@math.wisc.edu; sip://jheim@sip.linphone.org