I am happy to announce the fourth, and hopefully final draft of the 
speech-dispatcher/GNOME Accessibility technologies integration specification, 
found here: 
http://www.themuso.id.au/speech/speech-dispatcher-orca-integration.txt. Please 
have a read and give feedback. Changes in this version are as follows:

 * Refer not only to Orca, but all GNOME accessibility technologies that use 
speech output.
  * This now includes gok and dasher.
 * Attempted to clarify bits and pieces a little more by refactoring wording.

I am in the final stages of drafting a document outlining the work I will be 
doing as part of the next two Ubuntu development cycles, leading up to GNOME 
3.0, to further the speech cause, and assuming no issues, should have my work 
approved by my manager in at most a week. Once approved, I will start work 
right away.

In the long term interests of making the speech-dispatcher API the standard 
speech API for Linux, it has been suggested to me that I look at getting this 
project hosted at freedesktop, which will give some immediate benefits:
 * A bug tracker
 * A vcs repository
 * A mailing list for development discussion

Whilst the original home of speech-dispatcher has mailing lists and a vcs 
repository, there is no bug tracker so far as I have found, and moving to 
freedesktop is another way of indicating a willingness to define a speech API 
standard. Moving to freedesktop also may draw interest from other parts of the 
community to help with the speech API standardization effort. It would also be 
nice to get speech-dispatcher into a more useful vcs repository, something 
other than cvs. :) So if anybody is reading this and have ties with 
freedesktop, please contact me, as I'd love to hear from you.

Luke

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