From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-gh0-f173.google.com (mail-gh0-f173.google.com [209.85.160.173]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81CDA1EF531 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:14:20 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-gh0-f173.google.com with SMTP id 16so163587ghy.32 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:14:15 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:reply-to:from:to:references:subject:date:organization :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority :x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole:x-gm-message-state; bh=Dxih6nXjKDmYZn542jr+TV16PPinW2ZElLLFazWN4jQ=; b=Bk3hBTK0I92rXzSy5/Dmtjpnw46Hq043/7BVl3RvrxLJS+hjUox+LbwoqLdHpFLbiW pVnh4gloBrtIkGVtiReZX1/4uYSxCy+x9GHannfOtM1QngCyO1gX+pWt7SThn6D125FO WSLXWYf1pMfQZUIG8vZKLlEVNZr0gS+0T5mHOOTP1mbjAWbsb0YEsxkKsP6OdSUx+bJz 687u1oZSVPbWRTwhWjTFMdp+Z+zCFDjeAXp5ghHbZAhT2jWI6qZGgeJH0x2bNjDf8o8A hF+aIGz3usshdZdS97Fbge3CWttKapDz01M/6AvRqpfzpWjGMrvmDk2WbskKjt0kwXJ+ CDKQ== Received: by 10.236.147.208 with SMTP id t56mr1991925yhj.88.1355325255689; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:14:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from your2c061f0461 (184-155-21-108.cpe.cableone.net. [184.155.21.108]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n20sm32797041anl.19.2012.12.12.07.14.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:14:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: From: Glenn To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <50C79DA4.8010605@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Are the days of hardware synths and speaking from boot numbered? Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:14:12 -0600 Organization: home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkUewQdIYR/DRjXHop5oROtr0A+vpKxY9/UgW/f9t6IkaGXjuQbFe9oU4/7AqDgl358Uen1 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn , "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, 12 Dec 2012 15:14:21 -0000 I am awaiting my raspberry Pi. I have a Decktalk serial, and I'm sure that I have a USB to serial adapter around here. I will have to find out how to get that set up. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason White" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:23 AM Subject: Re: Are the days of hardware synths and speaking from boot numbered? Arthur Pirika wrote: >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? There are very cheap Linux-based machines available now, Raspberry Pi for example. You could buy one, install your speech synthesis software of choice on it, add a USB to serial adapter, write a small program to process incoming speech commands and text over the serial port and you thereby have your own "hardware" synthesizer. The price is probably less than what you would pay for a commercial product. You could even do it via Ethernet rather than a serial port, although in that case you would still need something on the client side that would start as early in the boot process as desired. Most (all?) server and workstation boards have serial ports built in, and there are USB to serial adapters available too, so I don't think serial ports should be a major issue. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup