Re: What is the proper way of launching Speech Dispatcher?

[Hynek Hanke <hanke brailcom org>]

Mario Lang wrote:
> I dont want to intrude on a topic that I might be failing to understand,
> but wouldn't this kind of defeat one good point about
> Speech Dispatcher, namely that it is ment to be used by different
> assistive technologies?  I am specifically refering
> to those ATs that work with the text console, like BRLTTY, which
> can use Speech Dispatcher for its speech output.

Hello Mario,

I think that your concern is perfectly valid. But there
is not really any problem as explained bellow. Of course
we think about the text console, which is still important
to many, about the boot process, perhaps login as well.

That we want to run Speech Dispatcher inside Gnome session
doesn't mean we want to stop Speech Dispatcher running
as a system service available to all. We are not removing
the /etc/init.d/ script or something like that, we just want
to additionally give the user the possibility to use his own
user Speech Dispatcher when inside Gnome session,
which is useful because each user can configure it specifically
to his needs, it is the proper way to run it with his user
Pulse Audio, it could communicate over DBus and such.

They can run on different ports, so there is no problem.

With regards,
Hynek Hanke