Re: [orca-list] [Fwd: Re: Proposal: Remove the emacspeak suppport]

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

+1 for discontinuing the emacspeak driver support.  In general, speech
dispatcher does a good job of supporting a variety of synthesizers.  I
think going forward would be much easier for Orca to not to have to
cary extra bagage like limitted speech synth support when it can be
handled by something else.  Speech Dispatcher is a good example of a
"common routine" to centralize speech support.

Yes, I think speech dispatcher can use help to be more stable and it
can be configured to not require pulse audio, plus it can support
hardware speech once a driver gets written.

I bought a USB Tripple Talk recently so I now have some interest in
seeing something to support it with speakup and with speech
dispatcher.  I need to learn how to write a USB driver though and I've
never done that before.

On 1/5/12, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 22:03 +0600, Dmitri Paduchikh wrote:
> > Sticking to old versions of Orca (and GNOME, probably) would be
> > undesirable for everyone, I think, and we are not exception.
>
> From what I have heard discussed on this list, it is getting
> progressively more difficult to use hardware synthesizers on systems you
> can just "go out and buy." At the same time, running the current GNOME
> on older hardware is becoming progressively more difficult. If this is
> indeed the case, then using the latest GNOME might, as a side effect,
> mean giving up the use of the hardware synthesizers. I dunno....
>
> >  Will
> > removing Emacspeak support right now help to solve some real problems
> > with Orca 3.4 or it can wait for some time?
>
> Is there a third choice? <smiles>
>
> Lemme put it this way: If we keep it, then I am going to need lots of
> testing when I completely redo the presentation support in Orca because
> I'm very likely going to break stuff given that I am converting code I
> didn't write and have little-to-no practical means of testing. And if
> it's completely broken, it's of no more use than if it is not even
> there. So if the Russian Linux community wants to step forward and help
> me on that front, I am willing to keep it around.
>
> I still feel, however, that independent of Orca, it makes good sense to
> see this support added to speech-dispatcher.
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
>
>
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