Re: hardware synthesisers.

[Milan Zamazal <pdm brailcom org>]

>>>>> "BH" == Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM> writes:

    BH> gnome-speech provides a uniform interface for speech clients (as
    BH> does speech-dispatcher, which came later).

There is one fundamental difference between gnome-speech and Speech
Dispatcher: gnome-speech is an ORB service bound to the GNOME
environment, while Speech Dispatcher is a general TCP server
communicating through a simple text protocol.

I think there are two interesting consequences of that fact here:

- It would make sense to use Speech Dispatcher as a gnome-speech
  backend, but not the other way round.  The model, where gnome-speech
  serves just as a GNOME interface to a speech synthesis frontend and
  Speech Dispatcher serves as the speech synthesis frontend, might be
  possible.

- There's an interesting question, whether gnome-speech could/should
  serve as a general speech synthesis frontend to all applications (as
  was suggested here), including applications like Speakup, shells,
  Emacs or other X based desktop environments, or whether Speech
  Dispatcher better serves the purpose outside the GNOME environment
  (possibly through various higher level interfaces as well,
  e.g. speechd-el speech output library might be considered an Emacs
  equivalent to GNOME's gnome-speech in such a case).

Regards,

Milan Zamazal

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