Re: [orca-list] Possibly Forking Gnome 2

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:49:57AM EST, Thomas Ward wrote:
> In addition to Orca there is something else that is worth discussing.
> Early on in the Gnome 2 development they developed gnome-speech for
> handling speech drivers. Later gnome-speech was replaced by
> speech-dispatcher. While I understand the change, especially for Gnome
> 3, I've found certain gnome-speech drivers work better. Take something
> like Cepstral Swift drivers. With gnome-speech Cepstral voices are
> fast and responsive. Use the generic Swift support in
> speech-dispatcher and speech is slow and choppy. With that in mind
> there would be some advantage to continuing gnome-speech development
> and support since it is still compatible with Gnome 2.

Wouldn't it be better to develope proper speech-dispatcher drivers for the Cepstral range of voices? Last I 
checked, all the necessary headers come with the cepstral voices when you buy them, and their API si well 
documented.

Luke