From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao103.cox.net ([68.230.241.43]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I2WXV-0000Lb-00 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:10:21 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao103.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070624180950.VYVA1594.fed1rmmtao103.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:09:50 -0400 Received: from bonus-eruptus ([72.198.87.190]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id FW9p1X00L46QN3s0000000; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:09:50 -0400 From: cmbrannon@cox.net (C.M. Brannon) To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Software speech opinions References: <000c01c7b2ab$984096f0$6401a8c0@YOUR3ADE1B78A3> <032101c7b681$2837a400$ab00a8c0@tenstac> <467EA927.2030006@clearwire.net> <044601c7b68e$af6f59b0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:04:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <044601c7b68e$af6f59b0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> (Doug Sutherland's message of "Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:37:13 -0500") Message-ID: <87lke9jkjw.fsf@cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:10:21 -0000 "Doug Sutherland" 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