[BRLTTY] A SpeechAPI for BrlTTY

[Yannick PLASSIARD]

Hello,
	I realized that, now we have a BrlAPI to allow other 
applications to communicate with a braille display, what about a 
SpeechAPI to communicate with the TTS used by BrlTty ?
I think this should be done (meaning I could do it), but need to be 
planned and discussed to avoid useless stuffs. 
For now I think about 3 directions to start :
* Rebuild a complete client/server/library stuff, as BrlAPI but designed 
for speech.
* Add extensions to the BrlAPI to send messages to the TTS.
* Use an existing TTS dispatcher (speech-dispatcher ??), and make a 
Bridge between brltty and the dispatcher (a pseudo TTS driver).

For now, I think that the best sollution would be second one because:
* The programmer as a unique piece of code to deal with Braille and 
Speech ;
* We can reuse all the "thread" and priority stuff used by the BrlAPI, 
which works well and has very few bugs, compared to building a new one 
from scratch.
* It will be easier to port, maintain, and change, a single library than 
two.

What do all of you, think about this idea ? Is there anyone who would be 
interrested to use (tester or programmer) ?

Have a good day,
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Yannick PLASSIARD
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