Re: [g-a-devel] Speech-dispatcher/orca integration specification, first draft.

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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Re-sending to ensure I sent it to the same addresses as the original.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:55:12PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> I am happy to announce the first draft of a specification document I am writing, which discusses what is required for speech-dispatcher to be more tightly integrated with orca, and the various kinds of environments where orca has to be able to function. Just about all the suggested changes in this document can also be applied to other speech-dispatcher clients in the *NIX accessibility relm, including BrlTTY, yasr, and speakup, however this document focuses on the requirements for orca.
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> You can find the first draft of this document here: http://www.themuso.id.au/speech/speech-dispatcher-orca-integration.txt. Note you will always be able to find the most current version of the document at this URL, however I will be keeping older versions of the document at a similar location, as this document is improved. Keeping old versions will allow for looking back and working out the changes that were made along the way.
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Hi all
Sorry I haven't got to this sooner, I've been rather busy helping get Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 ready. I have made some slight adjustments to the document referred to at the above URL. Please have a look, and let me know if things are still not clear enough.

I'd  like to point out that this needs to be finalized by the end of April. Exactly when at the end of April I am not sure, Will can probably fill us in on that.

There are a few things I'd like to make clear, relating to previous discussion in this thread:

 * You will still be able to run speech-dispatcher as a system service should you wish to, although its likely distributions will only configure speech-dispatcher to work as a system service for things like BrlTTY, speakup, and gdm login.
 * You will be able to configure speech-dispatcher to use whatever audio system you want, so if you don't want pulse, you don't have to have it enabled for speech-dispatcher. One addition that the specification does address however, is allowing for the falling back to other audio systems in the event the chosen system fails. So for example, if pulseaudio is requested, but is not available, use alsa, and if not available, use oss, etc.
 * This specification only deals with Orca. The unresolved issues section of the document deals with things that do need to be resolved for speech-dispatcher to be a good gnome-speech replacement, but these issues are NOT specific to orca.
 * Such issues in the unresolved issues section will be addressed in a separate specification which will go into detail about the extra work needed to make speech-dispatcher the standard text to speech API for Linux, and hopefully *NIX.
 * sd_generic will not be going away.

Please have a read, and give feedback. I am starting to work on a specification that is Ubuntu specific, to be discussed at the next Ubuntu Developers summit in May, as this work will have to benefit Ubuntu if my superiors are to give me the green light to do this work in Canonical's time. This specification needs to be complete soon, so I need to be able to refer to this specification where necessary. Also note that the work in question will probably be done in 2 6-month lots, depending on how long the work takes to complete, given that I also have other Ubuntu related duties.

Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Luke
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