I definitely agree that a shared speech service is very important, whether it is gnome-speech or SpeechDispatcher, or whatever else (e.g., MRCPv2).
Will On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 20:24 +0100, Lukas Loehrer wrote: > Willie Walker writes ("Re: eSpeak support in Orca -- what is the best way?"): > > We recently looked at making a gnome-speech driver for eSpeak, but the > > main problem is that the eSpeak libraries have no facilities for sending > > samples to the audio device. Instead, it relies upon the application to > > manage the audio. > > I guess this is exactly why something like speech-dispatcher is a very > good idea in the long run because it spares implementers of tts > engines from dealing with the quirks of audio output architectures. > Having written code for speech output with Alsa myself, I know this is > not easy to get right, partly because low latency and instance > interruptibility of playback is important in the tts scenario. Having > this problem solved once and for all in a layer like speech-dispatcher > will give people more time to focus on actual tts code. > > Best rgards, Lukas > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list