device driver for the DoubleTalk speech synthesizer (fwd)

[Hans Zoebelein <zocki@goldfish.cube.net>]

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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 21:29:31 -0400
From: James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
To: blinux-announce@redhat.com
Subject: device driver for the DoubleTalk speech synthesizer

I have updated my kernel driver for the DoubleTalk PC speech
synthesizer from RC Systems.  It now works with the latest
developmental kernels (since 2.1.115, at least).  A source
package 

	dtlk-1.16.tar.gz

and a kernel patch against the 2.1.124 sources

	dtlk-patch-2.1.124

are available from my web page (http://www.mv.com/ipusers/vanzandt).
I have also uploaded the source package to the blinux ftp site, where
it should be available shortly (ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux/).

I wrote this driver to support emacspeak, which provides emacs with
speech output and thereby makes it accessible to a blind user.  It has
been working as a module under 2.0 kernels for over a year now.

I suppose it is too late to get this driver incorporated into the next
"stable" kernel.  There would have been plenty of time, except that a
code freeze was announced shortly before I got it working, and I
actually believed it.  (Silly me.  That was back in January.)  On the
other hand, it is unlikely to interfere with any other kernel
functionality - especially for the vast majority of users who do not
enable it.  

The 26 kB patch touches these files:

  vanzandt:~/speech/doubletalk/pc$ grep ^+++ dtlk-patch-2.1.124
  +++ linux-2.1.124/CREDITS       Tue Oct  6 21:16:50 1998
  +++ linux-2.1.124/Documentation/Configure.help  Tue Oct  6 20:49:28 1998
  +++ linux-2.1.124/MAINTAINERS   Tue Oct  6 21:21:52 1998
  +++ linux-2.1.124/drivers/char/Config.in        Tue Oct  6 20:58:26 1998
  +++ linux-2.1.124/drivers/char/Makefile Tue Oct  6 21:00:19 1998
  +++ linux-2.1.124/drivers/char/dtlk.c   Tue Oct  6 20:49:28 1998
  +++ linux-2.1.124/drivers/char/misc.c   Tue Oct  6 20:49:28 1998
  +++ linux-2.1.124/include/linux/dtlk.h  Tue Oct  6 20:49:28 1998

I sent a similar announcement to linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu.  I did
not send the two announcements at the same time, because I did not
think replies from either list should get sent to the other.
	 
I would appreciate any comments.
  
                           - Jim Van Zandt


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