Re: [g-a-devel]Re: Proposed implementation agnostic GNOME Speech API.

[Olaf Jan Schmidt <ojschmidt kde org>]

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Forgot to cc the list...

[Rich Burridge, Di 16.12. 2003 00:16:00]
> The second intent here is to look at the bigger picture and provide a
> speech API (and implementation) that will work across desktops (GNOME
> and/or KDE).

I think going into this direction would be very helpful for
interoperability between kttsd and gnome-speech.

> That won't happen if CORBA variables are being exposed in
> the function definitions but might if this is hidden. It won't happen
> with the existing CORBA impl. either, but I intend to prototype using
> D-BUS.

For kttsd, we currently use DCOP, but if D-BUS turns out to be stable
enough, we might well switch to D-BUS with KDE 4.0, or provide a
lightweight DCOP<->D-BUS bridge even earlier.

If you decide to use an implementation independent protocol for
gnome-speech, then I am definately interested poting kttsd to a very
similar DCOP-based API now to make future briging as easy as possible.

Another idea would be to share the speech drivers - to they currently rely
on GTK+?

Olaf

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
KDEAP co-maintainer, maintainer of http://accessibility.kde.org

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