Re: [orca-list] Plans for Speech Dispatcher

[Rui Batista <ruiandrebatista gmail com>]

Hi,
Qui, 2010-07-01 Ãs 09:13 +0700, Michael Pozhidaev escreveu:

> > I agree it would be good to have a common DBUS API, both between
> > the different providers (Speech Dispatcher, OpenTTS and KTTSD)
>
> What do you think about asking freedesktop.org to consider D-Bus
> specification for any speech service provider? The basic functionality
> is quite obvious, the question is only to define exact names and
> save extensibility. It seems to me it is important to do it now before
> it's too late.
+1. ok, +100000.

> > and inside the providers themselves (between client and server, between
> > server and modules, hopefully once also between modules and TTS
>
> All internal communications can easily be a private concern of each
> provider. It's not so important.
Agreed.

> > Steps have partly already been taken towards this API under the name
> > of TTS API: http://www.freebsoft.org/tts-api . Developers from
> > various sides have participated, both Gnome and KDE, and Brailcom
> > has put in our knowledge and experiences and known limitations
> > from the current SSIP protocol.
>
> Yes, of course, it's very useful knowledge. However it's just
> spd-specific material whereas problem is wider. We have speech synthesis
> markup languages, ssml and jsml and they must be considered too
> (compatibility with these approaches). 
>
> The subject now is general
> abstract D-Bus interface for all providers, since we have several of
> them. Again, it seems to me this question must be forwarded to
> freedesktop. We see the conclusions of freedesktop are accepted by many
> projects. Speech service provider interface is just one more question to
> get solution suitable for all interested developers.
Agreed. Noone ditacting what is the interface, everyone contributing to
it... 

Regards,

Rui Batista