Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze
Hi.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 01:36:16PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
>
> In addition, Emacspeak (which is not a screen reader but a full speech
> interface to Emacspeak and its extensions) has always included its own speech
> servers. Orca used to be compatible with these, but the necessary support
> hasn't been maintained by the Orca community.
>
> If mixing happens at lower levels of the audio system, then at least multiple
> speech applications will be able to write their output to the ALSA device
> simultaneously, and the user will hear the end result - which might well not
> be intelligible.
>
There was a long discussion on the speechd mailing list about the issues resulting from the change. No one has
provided any real solution. That's why my negative thought about the future of speech output on linux. It's also why I went on to other things
after I filed the bug. I have a hard time making myself help developers follow a solution that breaks access to Linux.
I don't know what would be best from here, but something needs to be done if people want to use speech-dispatcher in Squeeze.
At the very least, users need to know about the issues before upgrading from Lenny.
Kenny
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