Dear Paul, Jean-Philippe, Fellow TTS members and
a11y members,
Paul's email has raised some important considerations.
Just some further clarification while we gather/await
opinions from other TTS and a11y team members:
1) Apologies for not being clear with regard to
speech-dispatcher. I had not considered this for the TTS group
since
I assumed it fell directly within a11y group's expertise.
Is this the opinion of a11y team members?
2) I had not formed an opinion with regard to
festival-freebsoft-utils. It would appear to lie right on the
border
between TTS and a11y programs which drive TTS. All of this
package is written in festival's Scheme implementation.
It is a small package and I would not want it to be long
orphaned.
For TTS group - uses same Scheme dialect which TTS group
maintains for festival - maintainence burden would be low.
For a11y group - freebsoft-utils is closely tied to
speech-dispatcher - a11y group has more users which would be
doing
on going testing of this functionality.
If a11y do not pick it up, I would say that TTS probably
would feel a strong moral obligation to pick up
freebsoft-utils.
It has a fairly high popcon (people find it useful) and
links closely with the festival/spech-tools packages we
maintain.
In a sense it is really the glue program between our two
groups. I look forward to your opinions.
I look forward to this continuing dialogue,
very best regards,
Peter Drysdale