Correct, and that's what I realized as I was posting to the Speakup list yesterday. I'm going to double-check my motherboard manual next chance I get to make sure Asus didn't sneak a serial header in there that I can use... but it's not likely for this board, sadly, which I should have considered when I bought it. But as long as I want speech from boot time, the USB to serial route isn't going to help.
Thanks again for the suggestion though, Michael. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Chris Brannon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Brltty and systemd? "Michael J. Astrauskas" <[email protected]> writes: > Have you tried a USB-to-serial converter? Yes, that works fine for emacspeak. I was doing that about 10 years ago, before I switched to software speech. Presumably, it would also work well for yasr, since it can use an emacspeak speech server. However, it won't work at all for Speakup, since Speakup communicates directly with the serial ports that used to be standard ON PCs. -- Chris
