[cctalk] Re: Does anyone know of anyone who may want to help out blind vintage computing enthusiasts

On Monday (09/15/2025 at 03:24PM +0000), Frank Ventura via cctalk wrote: not versed in Linux development so I have no idea what is involved with using that. I would assume it would need at least one more component to be developed to accpt the serial port input, respond to the control characters and pass the input to that DECTalk code. I tried to reply to this but for some reason my reply was rejected by the moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request: "[No reason given]" Anyway, I hoped to suggest that maybe Joe Grand could be convinced to produce his EMIC2 speech synthesizer module again as it is a fully DECTALK compatible module with serial interface. If you need USB, you'd just frontend it with a USB to serial adapter, https://grandideastudio.com/portfolio/do-it-yourself/emic-2-text-to-speech/ They used to be sold by SparkFun but they stopped producing them in 2023. Chris -- Chris Elmquist