[BRLTTY] brltty without braille

[Aldo]

Hello,

as followup to the message around brltty without braille (for speech 
only), I asked it to Roger Butenuth since I know that this is possible 
with BRASS;
I hope some elements of his answer may help / bring developers up to new 
ideas.....:


----- Forwarded message from Roger Butenuth <butenuth|online.de> -----
From: Roger Butenuth <butenuth at online.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:15:21 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

> How does the thing works then to pilote the speech synth? (Escape codes 
> or so?)

I don't have a Zaurus, so I can nothing say for sure. BRASS has the 
following dependencies:
 - Devices for screen access (/dev/console, /dev/vcsa0)
 - (Optional): Kernel patch to decouple "normal" programs from the 
   keyboard. You don't need this in case you control the cursor
   movements with keys on the braille display, but you need it 
   for speech only usage
 - Some way for speech or braille output. I suppose you want to have
   speech. In case the Zaurus has a serial interface, the interface
   for hardware synths should work. The software synths will only work
   when you have the necessary binaries for the Zaurus. 

Regards

Roger

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Aldo.