On 18/10/2024 03:29, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote:
Hey, that sounds promising. So was that dos install software speech or did you have a newer braille an speak connected? The only braille an speak I know about is the one I use to have in the late eighties.

I do not own any Braille 'n Speak. Some years ago I created a software emulation of such device, limited to the function of the BNS synthesizer, or "speech box mode" as the BNS manual calls it. This emulation is a Linux program that I named emubns. It can be "attached" to a virtual machine that runs DOS and mimic a BNS synth. I described the process in more details on the emubns website:
http://emubns.sourceforge.net

Anyway, if this is all software speech, could it work on a regular laptop?

Yes it can, but the laptop has to run Linux, and then the DOS system has to be executed within a virtual machine, for example under VirtualBox or QEMU. It's exactly how I created the video that I uploaded to youtube.

For such setup there is no need for a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry is a solution that may be used to attach emubns to a physical PC that runs DOS. For example if someone uses an old computer with DOS and a Braille 'n Speak device for synth output, then emubns on a Raspberry could be a drop-in replacement for the Braille 'n Speak.

My goal is to prepare a RPi that I will connect to my 386 PC so it talks to me when I enter commands and such. Nothing more.

I am *not* planning to transform a RPi into a standalone "DOS computer that talks". That was Eric's idea. A perfectly valid idea with possible practical applications, but outside of my specific interest.

Mateusz


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