> > Henrik writes: > > Speech dispatcher -- According to their website the SD gnome-speech > > driver will soon be shipped with gnome-speech. How mature is this?
Hello, this is true that a driver for Speech Dispatcher we in Brailcom developed will be shipped with Gnome Speech. It is already in CVS and will be in the next releases. It is useful for now, but it is by no means a great solution. It has some drawbacks, some of them result from trying to glue two things together with a little different design that were originally intended to sit at the same level. Other drawbacks are actually drawbacks in Gnome Speech itself. The worst thing is that it is currently impossible to switch languages at runtime in this setup. We think a better approach for the future would be to add Speech Dispatcher support to Orca. It does not mean Orca would need to abandon Gnome Speech for that reason. To my knowledge, Orca is prepared to have multiple backends. It would be great if this would be done. > > Should we standardise on SD for speech output in Ubuntu? What else is > > needed, configuration interfaces? Yes, a configuration interface would be nice. Not just for Dispatcher but also for things like Festival. Luke Yelavich writes: > KDE are planning to use speech-dispatcher for their back-end. IMO Sun > were stupid in creating gnome-speech, although I am pretty sure they did > it at a time when there wasn't really anything else. Not stupid. The two things started to be developed in parallel without knowing much about each other. Since then, the intention is to unify. But it is complicated by the different design. Now we at least all decided to create TTS API, a low level interface to the speech engines drivers and share the drivers. > IMO we rip the gnome-speech support out of orca, and use speech-dispatcher > directly. I am pretty sure SD has python bindings, and speech-dispatcher > as far as I have seen is a ittle easier to program for. As I explained above, there is no need to rip gnome-speech support out of Orca to be able to add direct support for Speech Dispatcher. There are Python bindings for Speech Dispatcher. I don't think the whole task is very difficult. > I think there is also a FSG accsessibility mailing list, although I > haven't looked for it yet. I will probably look into that sometime soon. There is also the ongoing work on TTS API from Brailcom, Gnome, KDE and several other accessibility projects. The main discussion place for that is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list hosted on www.freedesktop.org . If somebody is interested to help, please join the list. With regards, Hynek Hanke -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
