Serial Synthesizer Support

[Trevor Saunders]

HI,

I don't have any hardware, but I'll helpwith this whereI can.

trev

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:15:28PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Hey, I was thinking of wanting to include support for serial
> synthesizers like Speakout, DEC Express, Lite Talk, etc.  If nothing
> else, it should help get around some of the session integration issues
> and avoide conflicts with sound cards.  Also after regular serial
> ports, I would like to see support for USB synths in much the same
> way.  I recall speechd used to have an Apolo synth driver long time
> ago but it got pulled before I could save it aside.  Is there any way
> to get something like this going? I would think at the beginning
> perhaps I could clone a generic module for support to any serial synth
> just to make it talk and then code separate module for each synth with
> proper voice parameters.  My biggest concern would be the indexing the
> synth gives back to the driver.  But that could come a little later in
> the development cycle.  
> 
> What do others think of this idea? I would really like to get more use
> out of my Speakout <smile>.
> 
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