New developer

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:23:43AM EST, Tom Lloyd wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
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> Just wanted to say Hi and to get myself known. I have been using Ubuntu for=
> three or so years. I am a 26 year old developer from the UK trained in Emb=
> edded / Realtime systems. As a side project I am intergrating SAPI into Ubu=
> ntu to gives access to the MS speech engines using speech dispatcher.

This is awesome news, and depending on how far along your work is, may be enough of a reason to push for using speech-dispatcher as the speech backend for orca in the next Ubuntu release.

> I use compiz for zoon, so i could be intrested in working to improve speech=
> and magnification under ubuntu, suggestions for projects welcome.=20

We certainly need help in improving the state of magnification in Ubuntu. It works, but badly. What really needs doing is integrating the eZoom compiz plugin with Orca, as well as cleaning up Orca's speech-dispatcher support to be of similar quality to its support for gnome-speech. I plan to more tightly integrate speech-dispatcher for Ubuntu next cycle, due to its more flexible nature compared to gnome-speech. 

In short, integration is what we lack for accessibility in Ubuntu. The tools are there, but they need to be tied to gether in a way that makes them work seemlessly with each other, i.e eZoom/gnome-mag and orca, speech-dispatcher and orca, etc.

Thanks for your offer of assistance, it would be much appreciated.

Luke
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