Serial Synthesizer Support

[Hynek Hanke]

On 14.8.2010 17:35, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> I would suggest a generic hw-synth module with individual setting files
>> for each hardware synthesizer.
>>      
> That does sound like an interesting approach.  Actually, I think the
> generic module does that now.  In fact, I'll probably just use the
> generic module but start with a speakout-generic.conf file as I own a
> speakout and use the echo command as for the synth command.  Sounds
> like a simple start to me.
>    

Yes, that sounds as a very reasonable start. You need one
binary module being able to behave differently based on different
configurations and you do not need the complexity of audio
output. This sounds very much like the Generic audio module.

One of the first steps you would want to do, I think, is
to replace the calls of the external speak command with
communication to the hardware device.

Later, you will need to find a way how to describe the
various speech controll comands in the configuration files
and use these commands to enrich your communication
with the output modules.

Priorities will not work correctly without index marks,
but I don't think it would result in something seriously
broken. So I'd propose to leave index marking for later.

Best regards,
Hynek Hanke