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

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Call me crazy but, I'm of the opinion that stuff should not be 
deprecated unless that which is replacing it is equal to or better than 
that which is replaces.  Anything else flies in the face of progress.  
Those same people who decided to deprecate Gnome speech should have seen 
to it that speech dispatcher was going to do as good a job for all users 
as its predecessor before phasing it out.  This way those of us mortals 
without the wherewithall to "scratch" our proverbial itches wouldn't be 
left out in the cold while those who can improve product functionality 
make statements like:  "I could fix it but, I don't want to because *I* 
don't need it."  If I went and installed Linux at my business and made 
it our standard operating system for all my employees and had something 
phased out without something that replaced it with equal functionality, 
I'd be upset.  This is why Linux will never truly be mainstream.  Not 
that the paid solutions are without their flaws but over there, you can 
always fall back on:  "I'm paying for such and such and it's not working 
for me."

Alex M
On 5/1/2012 6:46 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> 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
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