Re: plans for gnome-orca speech backend
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:51:18AM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> wrote:
> > Hi. I just noticed the gnome-orca package in testing/unstable still uses gnome-speech for
> > output. Upstream has switch to speech-dispatcher. What are the current plans for Debian's gnome-orca
> > package?
>
> I don't know, but I would recommend migrating ultimately to OpenTTS, which is
> a community-led and community-supported (with many bugs fixed) fork of
> Speech-Dispatcher.
>
The reason I suggested speech-dispatcher is it's already a Debian package so little work will
be needed to make the change.
I've been watching the discussion about OpenTTS. For now, it still
might be better to switch to speech-dispatcher. Braillecom appears to have added most of
the patches from OpenTTS to the latest speech-dispatcher release.
> Gnome-Speech is to be deprecated prior to Gnome 3.0, as I recall.
Yes. Fortunately, Squeeze will stay with Gnome 2.30. It looks like Gnome 3 will be
a regression in accessibility at this point. We'll see what finally happens at release.
Work on at-spi2 appears to have slowed down recently. Based on the release notes, there appears to be a lot of work needed
before it can replace the corba based at-spi.
Kenny
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