Re: [orca-list] No speech with Ubuntu Gutsy beta 7.10

[Luke Yelavich <themuso themuso com>]

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:23:59PM EST, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > Speech-dispatcher is in the universe part of the repository, and at 
> > this late stage, it is not possible to move speech-dispatcher from universe to main.
>
> Are there any technical reasons for this?

Only that gnome-speech has so far been adequit for use for speech output under GNOME for most 
users. There is also the issue of supportability, as in, whether the core Ubuntu developers are 
willing to support the package, given that its well maintained upstream, and that any security 
issues are solved quickly.

> > There is also the issue of speech-dispatcher not easily having a system that allows individual 
> > users to have speech-dispatcher configurations, so far as I know. This is not at all useful in 
> > multi-user environments, which Ubuntu has to support.
>
> Which particular situation in a multi-user environment is not covered by
> the current design?  Without going into much detail, I'll try to outline
> the basic philosophy behind the current design.  As far as we know, it
> covers all the needs.  If you discovered any problems, we would
> definitely like to know.

I understand that a client has control over various settings, such as the voice used, rate, 
pitch, etc. However, so far as I have seen, it is not possible for example, for individual users 
to set which sound card their synthesizer of choice uses. To do this, one must have 
administrative rights, and must restart the service to accomplish this. Granted this may not 
always be desired in multi-user environments, but a user may wish to use a plugged in USB sound 
card for example, and as things currently stand, this would not be possible.
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