Re: Orca Speech Dispatcher and (was Re: new user with a few questions)

[Thomas Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi,

Willie Walker wrote:
I think we can easily get the code into Orca, much like we have done 
with Emacspeak, but there are bigger issues I'd like too think about,
such as: should Speech Dispatcher replace gnome-speech?  Should Speech
Dispatcher become part of GNOME?  What would doing this mean?  Who will
support it?  Will we get all the functionality we need?

I think there is allot going for speech dispatcher. Namely it's 
independence from gnome, and can be used by a wide variety of screen 
reader solutions.
One thing I have invisioned for Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD 
accessibility for quite a long time is a uniform set of speech drivers 
that can be used by several different assistive technologies. I can 
imagine a time where emacspeak, orca, gnopernicus, etc all uses  the 
same set of drivers for a wide range of different tts engines and 
hardware based synthes.
With a single set of drivers new comers can help upgrade the existing 
framework as well as have a central framework and API to work with. If 
someone wants to make some kind of scan and read OCR package for Linux 
he/she would naturally use the existing core API for speech weather it 
bee gnome-speech, speech-dispatcher, etc...
At this point speech dispatcher seams to be the one solution that is 
attempting this goal of a uniform set of speech drivers.