Re: [orca-list] Is anyone using Orca with Emacspeak? And does speech-dispatcher support hardware synths?

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Dne 13.6.2011 14:39, Steve Holmes napsal(a):
> A while ago, I expressed interest in developing a speech dispatcher
> module to support hardware synths in general.  I was thinking of doing
> something like the generic module.

Hi Steve,

Yes I seem to remember we discussed your ideas on the mailing list and it looked 
promising.  As Hynek just told me, the main problem with handling HW synths with the 
current generic module was that the command line programs which you usually get with 
them don't wait until the text is spoken.  They exit immediately as they send the 
command to the device.  This doesn't allow synchronization of speech needed by SD.  If 
there is a chance to get feedback from the device after the utterance is spoken, HW 
synths can be integrated quite well with SD.  This will most likely require a specific 
module, not the generic one.

Best regards, Tomas