[BRLTTY] about a speechAPI in brltty

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Olivier BERT wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just would like to give my opinion about the idea of Yannick to extend the
> brlAPI so that it could handle speech as well. Sebastien and Samuel seem to
> think that it's not a good idea to do that (too complex ...).
> But, there is an argument that I didn't see in the discussion : if I use
> speech-dispatcher to make a talking application, how can I handle the TTS
> engines integrated in braille displays ? BRLTTY has a support for such
> terminals : BrailleLite, CombiBraille etc... So, it's a good idea to use
> speech-dispatcher but people who have terminals with TTS integrated won't be
> able to use it.

BRLTTY can easily register with speech-dispatcher as a speech output at 
that point as well, making other applications able to route speech 
through such braille displays.


Nicolas