Re: Orca Speech Dispatcher and (was Re: new user with a few questions)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> One thing I have invisioned for Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD 
> accessibility for quite a long time is a uniform set of speech drivers 
> that can be used by several different assistive technologies. I can 
> imagine a time where emacspeak, orca, gnopernicus, etc all uses  the 
> same set of drivers for a wide range of different tts engines and 
> hardware based synthes.

Agreed - we definitely need a way to reduce device contention.  The
Brailcom folks have been leading a TTS API discussion, and I hope to be
able to review their latest draft as soon as the GNOME 2.16 dust
settles.

Another ideal, btw, would be to have such a speech system available as
early in the boot process as possible.

Will