More about speakup.
hank smith
hanksmith4 at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 11 22:58:52 UTC 2005
will it work with windows speech for example?
if so send me the script what a cool idea for people who run botyh windows
boxes and linux boxes
----- Original Message -----
From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at wisc.edu>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: More about speakup.
> Wow... You know what just occured to me... Wouldn't it be cool if there
> was a hardware speech synthesizer emulator?
>
> You plug a null-modem cable into your new computer, connect the other end
> to a machine with speech already working, and run an emulator on the
> machine with speech already running. The new machine thinks it's talking
> to a doubletalk LT for example but it's really talking to another
> computer.
>
> It shouldn't even be very difficult to write. You wouldn't have to worry
> about what is speaking. Just display whatever the synth is supposed to be
> saying. It would be up to whatever speech engine is on the old machine to
> do the talking. Write it in perl so it would be portable, run on any
> platform.
>
> Wow. I'm going to have to try this when I get home tonight. Connect a null
> modem cable to the port my doubletalk would normally be connected to and
> see what comes out on a terminal emulator on another machine. Then, write
> a perl script to send the same string to the double talk and see how it
> responds. And then write a perl script to say that same thing to the linux
> box on the other side of the null modem cable. Keep doing that until I
> essentually have a doubletalk LT emulator script.
>
> Might take me more than one night though.
>
>
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> At 02:45 PM 7/11/2005, you wrote:
>>Hi guys,
>>After my last question, it has occurred to me that I have a KeySoft CE
>>version 4 BrailleNote here.
>>
>>Would it be possible to connect this using my serial kable and get my
>>Linux talking?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Chris Norman.
>>
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