From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ESFUq-0007cZ-00 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:04:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 813AC740D6 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:04:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01752-05 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:04:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (lcyoung.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.90]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63796740D1 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:04:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from yoda.math.wisc.edu (yoda.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.12]) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4030C100451 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:04:14 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.2.20051019094323.02f7bd18@wiscmail.wisc.edu> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.1.2 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:04:13 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: "John G. Heim" In-Reply-To: <43559A26.8020501@physics.ucdavis.edu> References: <43559A26.8020501@physics.ucdavis.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu Subject: Re: Double Talk LT, but no serial port. Where do we go from here? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:04:52 -0000 At 07:58 PM 10/18/2005, you wrote: >work with the new laptop? I.e., have we overlooked the obvious? Well, at the very least, you'd have to specify the port. Speakup is going to use ttyS0 by default and your synth isn't connected to ttyS0. To specify the port you pass the speakup_ser parm to the kernel. But I don't think you can specify a USB port. To specify ttyS1 you'd say 'speakup_ser=1'. So I don't know how you'd tell it to try ttyUSB0 or whatever. >Second, if we can't get the Double Talk device to work, do you have >suggestions as to our next course of action? We've done a bit of web >surfing and determined that, as one would expect, there are USB-based >synthesizers available, although they seem a little pricey, especially for >a student. Do you have suggestions for a USB-based synthesizer? How about >other options? Dectalk software. It's only $50. Or actually, there are free speech synths. But the Dectalk speech synth was the best 2 years ago when I purchased it. That may have changed since.