Re: [orca-list] linux sound issues Re: Opensolaris Vs. Ubuntu

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I think you misunderstood what I meant by some of those comments. I have insertted extra information by your comments.

On 23/12/42 20:59, Halim Sahin wrote:

Hello,
On Do, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:17:22 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
  

I have to say I agree so much there.

    

Thanks.



  

I agree that gnome-speech should provide audio output for the synths  
rather than leaving it to the synth. If this was done then that is one  
large problem with gnome-speech solved.
    

What about console screenreaders?
  

They will need something else. I don't think gnome-speech was designed to solve that and probably never could fill that.

You are right that will fix a great problem but doesn't handle
other needs. I want to be able to use the same
synth under console and gnome.
  

You can, speech-dispatcher would be the solution.

I don't want to run gnome to have speech in textconsole.
BTW. I don't know if this is possible to use gnomespeech in no gnome apps.
  

I don't know either, but I would guess the amount of stuff it relies on would make it undesirable.

As for making speech-dispatcher default, does speech-dispatcher work on  
all the platforms orca does? If not then this could be a problem. 
    

Maybe the authors can answer to this.
BTW. brltty isn't part of gnome.
  

This is not a problem for orca!
  

It isn't a problem for orca as brltty works on most unix systems (I can't think of one which it doesn't that you could use orca on).

Maybe we should create a gnome-braille-server to handle braille and use gnome-speech for speech.
  

My suggestion that gnome-speech should be default is because it is known to work on all platforms orca is used on. If speech-dispatcher could run on all of these then I see no reason that speech-dispatcher couldn't become the default. Brltty fills that requirement, so why duplicate the work? I feel a default should always work, and don't forget the default is only the original setting it can always be changed if something else suits your needs better (eg. on windows window-eyes on a new install sets the synth to the included dectalk access 32 but I don't like that so I change it to eloquence, in gnome orca might originally use gnome-speech but you can change it to speech-dispatcher).

Michael Whapples

Greetings

Halim