Re: [orca-list] Plans for Speech Dispatcher

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Yes providing speech calls through DBUS sounds a great idea. For orca if 
everyone went that way then there wouldn't be need to support multiple 
speech backends, just support the API and let people choose which speech 
provider they want. However it would require multiple projects to go 
this way for the real benefit it can bring, if only one does it then it 
becomes yet another speech API to support.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Michael Pozhidaev wrote:
> Hello, Hynek Hanke!
>
>    
> > 2) After the release of 0.7.1, we plan to start working on
> > two major improvements for the 0.8 release: DBUS interface
> > and closer session integration using such technologies
> >      
> Will D-Bus interface be respondable only for control operations
> (stop server, etc) or there will be D-Bus interface to sent speech
> commands? It seems to me the second  may be amazing idea. It can be the
> simplest way to produce speech output from any place you want. But one
> important thing: if spd will  process commands to say any text and stop
> output with D-Bus it would be great to initiate public discussion to get
> some common interfaces for TTS engines accessible with D-BUS. Every TTS
> provider (kttsd, for example) may be interested in such interfaces
> research. Apparently, using common interfaces increases
> interchangebility between TTS engines.
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