Re: [orca-list] You all're gonna think I'm stupid, but, I need help with Gnome-Speech

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:35:52AM EST, Alex Midence wrote:
> I've always wondered why they haul off and fix what isn't broken.  Why
> was Gnome speech deprecated?  I don't believe speech dispatcher
> supports nearly as much stuff as gnome speech did:  Hardware speech
> synthesizers, commercial speech synthesizers like dectalk, nuance and
> acapella and on and on and on.

GNOME Speech was deprecated for a couple of reasons:
* THe inter process communication mechanism that GNOME speech uses known as CORBA, or orbit/bonobo was being 
deprecated.
* Speech-dispatcher had python bindings and Orca could already work with speech-dispatcher.

So even though speech-dispatcher may not yet support the same range of synths as GNOME speech, it was less 
work to use speech-dispatcher than it would have been to port GNOME speech to dbus or something else. GNOME 
speech also doesn't do anything with the resulting audio output from the speech synthesizes it supports, 
whereas speech-dispatcher handles audio output for synths that support it.

Someone need only step up and write a DECtalk, Cepstral, or other synth driver for speech-dispatcher, and it 
will be accepted. For those of us who have access to sed synths like myself, its a matter of finding the time 
and desire to actually do the work. FOr myself, since I am happy with espeak, I have no need to scratch an 
itch that is not there.

Luke