Serial Synthesizer Support

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks to both of you.  My C programming background isn't really heavy
but I could work from a clone of some existing code.  I just need to
track down that serial based module I thought I saw in the past.
Hmmm, wonder if I could dig it out of some really old version of
speech dispatcher.

Hey, one really quick and dirty way to get this started might be to
take something like the swift-generic module and change the command
string to echo the text to a pipe redirecting the output to
/dev/ttyS0.  Of course, the /dev/ttyS0 should be a user-definable
variable.  Yeah, I'm gonna jump on this to see if that can start
things going.  Like I said before, my biggest concern would be
indexing but I'm not sure if any of the generic modules support
indexing.  Just that when we begin work on specific modules for the
serial synth, I would want to include indexing if the synth has it;
the Speakout, for example, does.

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 01:29:41AM -0400, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> 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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