Orca and eSpeak
Henrik Nilsen Omma
henrik at ubuntu.com
Thu Sep 28 15:02:25 BST 2006
Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Luke:
>
>
>> What would actually be better, is to have a module written for
>> speech-dispatcher to interface with the espeak shared library, rather
>> than call the command-line utility all the time. Personally, I feel
>> gnome-speech needs to be removed, and speech-dispatcher should be the
>> speech back-end of choice.
>>
>
> Will people from Ubuntu be at the GNOME Boston Summit?
Jeff Waugh and Jorge Castro from Ubuntu will be there but no one from
the AT team I'm afraid :(
>
> For replacing gnome-speech with speech-dispatcher, I really need to hear
> your thoughts on why this is necessary. My main concern is to make sure
> that this doesn't just end up swapping one set of problems for another
> and that the switch really solves the problems we want solved.
>
I'm not sure it's necessary, but it seems sensible if we want to
strengthen cross-platform support and reduce duplicate maintenance in
future.
Henrik
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