Re: [orca-list] Built in Controls for Espeak Pretty Please with Sugar, cheeries, whatever it takes on top :)

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> I must admit that I'm surprised at the level of hostility I have seen with
> regard to this idea.  In light of it, I honestly think that nothing short of
> getting funding and actually hiring somebody to do it is the only way this
> will happen.  Such a pity.  While I think the idea of speech dispatcher is a
> good one, unfortunately, all too often, as Rudyard Kippling would've put
> it"Desire outruns performance."  When this happens, the user is left in the
> lurch completely without speech unless he or she has console speech or
> another solution like Emacspeak installed.  

One of the Speech-Dispatcher developers, as I remember, once proposed
redesigning it and rewriting it in Python. I'm sure the issues raised here
could be addressed in such a rewrite. That idea, too, was lampooned on this
very mailing list, as I recall.