Re: Thoughts on speech

[Jan Buchal <buchal brailcom org>]

>>>>> "WW" == Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM> writes:

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

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

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

    WW> * There are a number of questions regarding Speech Dispatcher:

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

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

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

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

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

    WW> So, I'd like to propose that we consider a different task for
    WW> funding as part of the GNOME Outreach Program.
Well, I see it as very bad idea. Speech-dispatcher is financed by
Brailcom long time already, and Brailcom is non profit organization. If
you mean that we don't need support for our work then in this case our
opinions are very different.

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