Re: GNOME 2 Sound Architecture and APIs?

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi John:

For some reason your email seems only to have turned up in my inbox 
today...

Tim Janik (also co-maintainer of GTK+) presented a very interesting 
presentation on his "pet project" called "aRTS" which includes a new 
backend library, the Common Sound Layer (CSL), a new sound daemon, and 
attempts to address realtime requirements...  I don't have the URL 
handy; Tim, are you listening ? :-)

So this project may be the appropriate vehicle for moving forward with 
sound on GNOME.  As you are aware, sound support is important for 
effective text-to-speech service, which is a requirement for 
accessibility.  At the moment just using /dev/audio is not quite good 
enough, aRTS and CSL could allow us to avoid rolling our own wrappers 
for text-to-speech audio support.

Regards,

-Bill

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I would appreciate getting peoples views on where GNOME 2.x should be
>regarding its sound architecture. I am not trying to suggest that we
>should change the current GNOME 1.x sound, but more want to know what 
we
>collectively think is the right strategy/standard base that GNOME
>depends upon. I would like to be able to collectively develop a plan 
for
>enhancements etc which we agree we need to deliver as a part of GNOME 
2.
>
>Thanks
>John



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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland