Serial Synthesizer Support

[Trevor Saunders]

Hi,

doing it with a shell may work, but it won't really help with writing a driver, 
but it may help explain the protocol which could be useful.

trev

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:11:56AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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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