Other speech engines (was, e: Orca as default screen reader in GNOME 2.16.)

[Al Puzzuoli]

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" <
henrik at ubuntu.com>

To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List"
<
ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>

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
>
>
> --
> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list
>
Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
>
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Nilsen Omma" <henrik at ubuntu.com>
To: "Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List" 
<ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
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
>
>
> -- 
> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list
> Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility