[BRLTTY] A SpeechAPI for BrlTTY

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hello list,

	I am fairly new to the list and braille in general, so forgive me if my question is juvenile in this context.

	First, let me thank Dave Mielke for brltty and especially the new driver for the Brailliant display... it works beautifully as far as I can tell. I'm using it to get myself up to speed in Braille.

	On the other hand, I have been using speakup (screen review/speecch for linux) for several years. I now am using them concurrently with great success... My question:

	Why develop another speech package from scratch? speech-dispatcher and speakup are already very useable and work together with brltty. Perhaps I'm missing something? I realize that this is not a solution for Windows/brltty users, but for linux users...

	--terry


On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:47:04PM +0200, Yannick PLASSIARD wrote:
> Hi Sebastien Samuel and  all,
> 	By saying "few bugs", I wanted to say that there are less bugs 
> in an already tested stuff than in a "created from scratch one". For 
> now, I didn't find any bug into the BrlAPI (or they have been fixed 
> before I could report them). ;-)
> I looked up into the speech-dispatcher stuff, and it seoms to be mat-re, 
> the author(s) implemented lots of things, and I finally think that I 
> will start from here.
> The next step, after successfully tried speechd, will be to connect the 
> speechd and BrlTty toghether. For now, I don't have really good ideas to 
> do that, so if you have some, just let me know. :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:32:50PM +0200, S?bastien Hinderer wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > Well, Sam was rather complete in explaining our reasons for not mixing
> > speech and braille management. And the points given by Nicolas are
> > relevant, too. So I'll just insist a little bit:
> > As people subscribed to a11y mailing-lists can see, handling braille
> > support is already incredibly difficult (much more difficult I ever
> > thought when starting BrlAPI, actually).
> > So we are certainly not going to make our lives even more difficult by
> > adding support for speech, for which we have absolutely no experience
> > (given that this support is itself _highly_ non-trivial).
> > For those who can't believe BrlAPI is complex, just have a look to the
> > source code, it's already big enough, I'd sax.
> > 
> > And by the way, Yannick, you said that the thread stuff has "few bugs".
> > Please report them !!
> > 
> > Okay, I think that's it for now.
> > Cheers,
> > S?bastien.
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