On Friday 01 September 2006 09:31, Willie Walker wrote:
> Related to the speech question, Orca currently uses the
gnome-speech
> system, which provides a service-based approach to
accessing speech
> synthesis engines. Orca v1.0 will be shipping with
GNOME 2.16 next
> week. As soon as GNOME 2.16 is out the door, we will
be looking at
> future support for things such as SpeechDispatcher. I
believe the
> ultimate goals include providing a system-wide service
for speech that
> can be simultaneously used by different applications
and works well
> across things such as GNOME and KDE. This would permit
both the "self
> voicing" and assistive technology camps to play
well together on the
> same machine.
>
> Will
Full ack on what Will said. I would add that my plan for
KTTS in KDE 4 is
also to migrate to the Speech Dispatcher backend. There are
a few changes
needed to SD before we can do that, but I expect that to
happen in the not
too distant future.
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/roadmap.ht
ml
I also echo Olaf's comment that assistive technology speech
and
application-specific speech are not mutually exclusive.
--
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php
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