idea with raspberry pi4 as a hardware synth

the idea. SOmehow turn a raspberry pi, 3 or 4, maybe 0 even, into a hardware synth. It could have 3 modes. Standalone mode, where it's it's own notetaker and stuff. A USB mode where text can be sent to it through standard USB. And the third is to have an emulated serial mode. Since the pi4 has USBC, just plug it into a macbook directly, with a speaker connected to the pi, and when the pi boots it says ready, defaulting in hardware synth mode. You can then send data to it as if it were a serial synth. Could this be possible? It's a cheep way to have your own custom hardware synth, I guess. Then, you could use SAM, the original SAM from the 80's, with NVDA or even window eyes or dosbox.

sounds like an intresting idea

Agreed.
But how will you put eSpeakup with a speakup there?

Oh, sorry, I thought you wanted to do that as an alternative to a tts for linux that will be hardware.

I would connect this Pi to my physical DOS computer.

interesting idea