Re: [orca-list] [Fwd: Re: [g-a-devel] Speech-dispatcher/orca integration specification, first draft.]

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I have a comment regarding this. My concern/question may be attended to 
by some of the already propose stuff, I'm just not quite sure whether it 
could actually work only with what is proposed.

My thought is, is there anyway the audio output could be set per user or 
maybe even per client? By this I mean audio output as in sound card 
selection. Could the unix sockets connection idea and client spawning 
solve this? Also while this is only aimed at gnome/orca intergration, 
how might this impact on a system using gnome but also with speakup in 
the text console (IE. both gnome and non-gnome clients potentially 
requiring speech).

I have to be honest that I am not fully sure how it might be done and 
how it might be for a user to use. As an example I am thinking a little 
how SAPI5 can be used in windows. You have a tool where you can set 
defaults (including output audio device) but then individual 
applications using SAPI5 can configure it (again including the audio 
device) and so override the defaults. Should an application not set 
something then the default is used. This SAPI5 example may work to an 
extent for gnome, but it doesn't help for the part how gnome and 
non-gnome clients may cooperate.

Michael Whapples
On 23/12/42 19:59, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hey All:
>
>
> With the planned removal of CORBA from GNOME 3.0, we need to resolve 
> the situation with GNOME speech (GNOME speech currently uses CORBA).
>
>
> Luke Yelavich from Canonical has developed a proposal at 
> http://www.themuso.id.au/speech/speech-dispatcher-orca-integration.txt
>
>
> This proposal uses speech dispatcher as a starting point and has 
> provisions to address a number of considerations for different 
> operating systems and different operating environments.
>
>
> I'd appreciate it if you could review this proposal and provide your 
> constructive feedback.  Note that constructive feedback does not 
> include any of the following:
>
>
> 1) This is dumb.
> 2) How do I configure speech-dispatcher on Ubuntu?
> 3) Will Cepstral be coming out with new voices?
> 4) Which netbook should I buy?
> 5) I cannot navigate my.favorite.page with Orca.  Why?
> 6) Did OOo come out with a new release yet?
> 7) etc.
>
>
> Note that replying to this message with anything like the above may 
> cause the moderation filtering mechanism I have in place to fire and put
> you on moderation.  So, do the simple thing and be constructive.
>
>
> An example of constructive feedback would be "I'm concerned about 
> feature X.  It seems to prevent me from doing Y.  As an alternative, I 
> propose Z."
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Will