Re: [g-a-devel]gnome-speech ...

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Hi Michael,

Yes, this is definitely true.  I'm in the middle of implementing new 
gnome-speech API on a branch and have decided to not do any driver 
implmentation work on the old branch.  If this work seems trivial, then 
maybe its worth doing anyway.

Marc

At 10:42 AM 8/19/2002 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
>         Just poked at gnome-speech and it seems that the festival module,
> simply pokes at the known port for festival, but doesn't try to activate
> the server when it starts up.
>
>         I appreciate there may be acute lifecycle issues with that; so it's
> prolly best to pick a random (user) port, and fork festival_server
> assigned to that port [ repeat if it fails to bind ], and talk to that
> port - instead of to 1314. Then you at least have the liberty of killing
> the thing as you exit [ that is if you have that degree of lifecycle
> control yet ]
>
>         Either way - it seems far better for gnome-speech to activate it than
> simply failing silently when it can't find it.
>
>         Regards,
>
>                 Michael.
>
> --
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
>
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