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

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Dne 5.1.2012 16:37, Joanmarie Diggs napsal(a):
> > Most of the linux users in Russia use orca with emacspeak speech servers
> > because they provide multilingual speech output (we, for exaple, can
> > hear english text via enlish voice and russian text via russian)

AFAIK, this language switching is actually a feature of Voiceman, not the Emacspeak 
interface.  So my impression is, that the best short time solution would be to create a 
generic driver for Speech Dispatcher routing speech from SD to Voiceman.  Than you 
wouldn't need to maintain the Emacsspeak speech factory throughout Orca speech server 
API changes.  Writing a generic driver should be simple enough and the limitations of 
the generic driver are, up to my knowledge, not any more limiting, than the limitations 
of routing speech through the Emacspeak interfacce.

The ideal long term solution would probably be the integration of Voiceman output 
drivers into Speech Dispatcher as it was already discussed on the SD list and 
implementing the automatic language switching feature of Voiceman within Orca.

Best regards, Tomas