Hi Henrik: > Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there licensing > reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk support or > technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags then I can ask > our packagers to make a DECtalk-enabled version available.
The issue is licensing. The problem is that the DECtalk header files are Fonix's intellectual property. As a result, one needs to have the DECtalk SDK installed on their machine to build the DECtalk driver (the gnome-speech build will automatically build the DECtalk driver if it finds the DECtalk SDK). If the Ubuntu distribution folks were able to get the DECtalk SDK on their production machines, then I think they'd be able to ship the gnome-speech driver for DECtalk and then direct users to the Fonix web site to purchase the DECtalk run time (one would need to check the DECtalk license to make sure it is OK to ship things built against the SDK -- I'm not a lawyer and I'm not qualified to interpret legal documents). An alternative here would be to obtain a suitable license from Fonix to check their DECtalk header files into the gnome-speech repository. If that were possible, one could potentially write a stub library for the DECtalk API, allowing the gnome-speech driver for DECtalk to be built without requiring the SDK to be installed. I've ventured a little bit into this space with Fonix, but I'm spending the majority of my time focusing on Orca proper. Will _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
