Re: [orca-list] Possibly Forking Gnome 2

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Luke,

Perhaps. That's something that needs discussed. I have no problem with
writing speech-dispatcher drivers, as that would probably resolve the
issue for the long term, but for the short term gnome-speech seems to
be a better solution if you are not using ESpeak or Festival.

Cheers!


On 9/5/11, Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> 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
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