hi Henrik and all.
I personally would love to see movement away from Festival. it's too big,
it's buggy, it's unresponsive, and for what its worth, it also doesn't play
nice with VMware.
I don't know much about it myself, but a lot of folks over at the speakup
list seem to be pretty excited about Espeak. From what I understand, it has
a lot of potential, but needs some work. Also, I'm not sure whether anyone
is doing a gnome-speech driver. I don't know whether espeak can be brought
up to snuff in time for edgy inclusion, but perhaps it might be worth it to
consider expending some effort to make that happen.
--Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <
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To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List"
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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: Orca as default screen reader in GNOME 2.16.
Luke Yelavich wrote:
Hi all
There has been discussion on the various gnome accessibility lists about
proposing orca as the default screen reader for gnome 2.16. What is even
better, is that the gnopernicus developers have agreed with this
proposal, and intend to contribute to Orca's further development. Even if
this doesn;t go ahead in GNOME itself for 2.16, I personally feel we
should really push to make Orca the default screen reader for Edgy
anyway.
I was originally intending to write a spec for this, but since it may
happen anyway, I would like to get people's opinions about this.
I think we should first add our voice to the choir of those who now want
to see it as the default reader in Gnome 2.16. If that happens I don't
think we need any special policy change for Edgy, which will just use
Gnome 2.16. Let's see what happens i the next two weeks and then speak
with the Ubuntu Gnome devs in Paris.
I also have some other specs that I am in the process of writing, and
will let you all know when they are done, so we can talk about them on
the list before I take them to Parris to be discussed with the wider
Ubuntu community, and the core dev team.
Post them, post them! I for one am in spec writing mode, so let's get
them out there so we can polish them up. My Edgy specs so far:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/SOK
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/compiz-mag
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/CommonATConfig
(the last one will need some re-thinking)
I'd also like to do some specs on:
* Even better accessibility boot:
The F5 menu should really be full screen, high contrast, and ideally have
voice feedback
* Multilingual speech - we need better support for more languages
* Speech dispatcher and possibly other speech engines -- Festival 2?
* access.ubuntu.com -- A new section of the website with help and
information
- Henrik
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: Orca as default screen reader in GNOME 2.16.
Luke Yelavich wrote:
Hi all
There has been discussion on the various gnome accessibility lists about
proposing orca as the default screen reader for gnome 2.16. What is even
better, is that the gnopernicus developers have agreed with this
proposal, and intend to contribute to Orca's further development. Even if
this doesn;t go ahead in GNOME itself for 2.16, I personally feel we
should really push to make Orca the default screen reader for Edgy
anyway.
I was originally intending to write a spec for this, but since it may
happen anyway, I would like to get people's opinions about this.
I think we should first add our voice to the choir of those who now want
to see it as the default reader in Gnome 2.16. If that happens I don't
think we need any special policy change for Edgy, which will just use
Gnome 2.16. Let's see what happens i the next two weeks and then speak
with the Ubuntu Gnome devs in Paris.
I also have some other specs that I am in the process of writing, and
will let you all know when they are done, so we can talk about them on
the list before I take them to Parris to be discussed with the wider
Ubuntu community, and the core dev team.
Post them, post them! I for one am in spec writing mode, so let's get
them out there so we can polish them up. My Edgy specs so far:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/SOK
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/compiz-mag
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/CommonATConfig
(the last one will need some re-thinking)
I'd also like to do some specs on:
* Even better accessibility boot:
The F5 menu should really be full screen, high contrast, and ideally have
voice feedback
* Multilingual speech - we need better support for more languages
* Speech dispatcher and possibly other speech engines -- Festival 2?
* access.ubuntu.com -- A new section of the website with help and
information
- Henrik
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[email protected]
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