Sounds absolutely right on to me. Thanks for that thorough response, and please pardon me for not keeping up with the who's who in the Speech Dispatcher change log. Janina Bill Cox writes: > Yep, I'm aware. I rewrote speech-dispatcher's pulseaudio driver based > on Luke's libao driver and code from the ao library. I suspect it > will become the default speech-dispatcher driver in Lucid. I'm going > to build a Vinux release based on Lucid using pulseaudio and > speech-dispatcher. That's why I'm interested in getting speechd-up > working well. > > I'll also need to get speakup working well for the CLI version of > Vinux, where speakup will be the primary interface. The trick here is > supporting guys who want to call startx to do some Gome stuff now and > then. What I need is speakup working before gnome starts, and while > Gnome is running, playing nicely with speechup-d the whole time. > > Regards, > Bill > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote: > > Bill Cox writes: > >> I'm leaning towards the speechd-up connection to speech-dispatcher. > >> I've got it working on my armic machine right now. ?It let's me use > >> the voxin voice, which I prefer to espeak. > >> > > > > Just touching base to make sure you're aware Luke Yelavich (and others) > > are tweaking Speech Dispatcher to get it to play nice with Pulse Audio, > > among other things. Speech Dispatcher will be the speech server > > interface when Orca moves to D-Bus next autum. So, it would make sense > > to focus Speakup's software speech support there as well, imho. > > > > Janina > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina at rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
