Re: [orca-list] Plans for Speech Dispatcher

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Michael Pozhidaev napsal(a):
> > 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.

If the communication with output modules was standardized as well, the TTS engine
drivers would be interchangeable, which would be worth some effort, IMHO.

> > 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). 

Have you read it?  It is not specific to Speech Dispatcher at all.  In fact Speech
Dispatcher would need to be changed quite dramatically to comply.  As Hynek said, it was
a joint effort of several (I'm tempted to say all) FOSS projects involved in the problem
in the time of its writing.

Best regards, Tomas