Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

I definitely agree that a shared speech service is very important,
whether it is gnome-speech or SpeechDispatcher, or whatever else (e.g.,
MRCPv2).

Will

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 20:24 +0100, Lukas Loehrer wrote:
> Willie Walker writes ("Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?"):
> > We recently looked at making a gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, but the
> > main problem is that the eSpeak libraries have no facilities for sending
> > samples to the audio device.  Instead, it relies upon the application to
> > manage the audio.  
> 
> I guess this is exactly why something like speech-dispatcher is a very
> good idea in the long run because it spares implementers of tts
> engines from dealing with the quirks of audio output architectures.
> Having written code for speech output with Alsa myself, I know this is
> not easy to get right, partly because low latency and instance
> interruptibility of playback is important in the tts scenario. Having
> this problem solved once and for all in a layer like speech-dispatcher
> will give people more time to focus on actual  tts code.
> 
> Best rgards, Lukas
> 
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