Thoughts on speech

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

Great IRC meeting yesterday.  Thanks everyone for attending and 
participating.  Here's some notes I took regarding speech:

* While it may not be the pristine perfect solution, Speech Dispatcher 
seems to fit nicely into the overall requirements we need as a larger 
community.

* Speech Dispatcher appears to have a lot of momentum around it, with 
groups such as OLPC, Ubuntu, KDE, etc., adopting it.

* There are a number of questions regarding Speech Dispatcher:

  o Is the configuration simple enough and/or can it be made simpler?

  o What engines are supported now?  What drivers are being written?

  o Cross platform compatibility.  I tried compiling w/o success on 
Solaris last night.  :-(

  o What additional work needs to be done to integrate it more tightly 
with Orca?

These questions/problems seem pretty tractable and we already have a 
thriving community of capable people working on them.  For example, 
Kenny, David, Tomas, and Luke have been going at it pretty hard (thanks) 
and we have a number of Orca users beating on the Orca/SpeechDispatcher 
interface daily.  As a result, it's a lot further along than it was even 
a month ago.

So, I'd like to propose that we consider a different task for funding as 
part of the GNOME Outreach Program.

What are people's thoughts on this?

Will