synthesizers

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Ari:

I don't know of any dealers in the Los Angeles area--but perhaps someone
else might. Usually, you would buy these synths by mail order, but if
it's more convenient for your teacher to bring a synth to you
personally, I suppose it could be mailed to her in L.A. where she's
staying.

As far as I'm aware, most hardware synths that are supported by Speakup
are acquired used. Sometimes you can still find an older synth like the
Doubletalk new, but I don't know a place right now.

There are two exceptions. There is a new DEC Talk that provides both
serial and USB, and also a Tripletalk with serial and USB. Both of these
are supported by Speakup, but only via the serial port. You cannot yet
use Speakup via USB. Don't worry. You don't have to load drivers by hand
every time you boot. You install and configure it once and then just use
it.

Here are some urls for you:

http://www.axsol.com/ttusb.html
http://www.chirpingbat.com/adaptivetechnologyproducts.shtml

Good luck.

Ari writes:
> Hi all,
> In June my teacher is going to America, so I'm trying to see if she can't
> get me a hardware synthesizer to start using linux. She'll be in L.a, so is
> their any distributor of hardware synthesizers and adaptive technologies who
> would deliver one, or near enough so that she can go their? Also, Janina
> recommended to me the DoubleTalk, but are their other options that are
> multi-lingual? I've heard of one called Keynote Gold, and I see it's
> compatible with speakup, but is the quality of speech good, how much more
> expensive is it, what languages does it come in, and who sells it? The
> DoubleTalk   connects via a serial
> port, so I'm guessing that I'll need to install drivers for it everytime, is
> their any synthesizer that is plug-and-play USB which gets detected and
> recognised automatically?
> Thanks
> Ari
> 
> 
> 
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