More about speakup.

[hank smith]

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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