[Kde-accessibility] Re: XML

[Peter Korn]

Hi Pupeno,

> I'm Proklam's author (something like gnome-speech but for KDE) and 
> although I'm using DCOP and other KDE like technologies, I'd like to keep 
> gnome-speech and Proklam as close as posible.
> That will help programers programming with one use another and further
> cooperation. What I would like to do is what are you doing regarding XML.
> I'd like to know what you have implemented so far and what will you 
> implement in the future to take, if posible, the same path.

The current version/generation of gnome-speech does very little with speech
markup.  We have long wanted to implement that, but are focused first on
getting the minimal functionality needed by gnopernicus completed and
several gnome-speech drivers written that support it.  The thinking for the
next generation is to closely follow the Java Speech TTS XML markup work, as
being developed under the Java Community Process (see Java Specification
Request #113, at: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=113).

I've cc-ed Marc Mulcahy (maintainer of gnome-speech) and Rich Burridge (oen
of Sun's accessibility engineers and the fellow looking at the next
generation of gnome-speech), both of whom can speak on this topic in more
detail.  I've also cc-ed Willie Walker and Paul Lamere of the Sun Labs
Speech team (the folks who defined the Java Speech API version 1.0, and who
ported Festival Lite Java in the form of FreeTTS).  They too are more expert
on this than I, and I expect neither are on either of these lists.


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team