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Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] Text-to-Speech from OOo and Browsers
From: Gary Cramblitt <garycramblitt () comcast ! net>
Date: 2006-09-01 18:02:01
Message-ID: 200609011402.02624.garycramblitt () comcast ! net
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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.html
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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