[Kde-accessibility] KDE Text-to-speech API 1.0 Draft 1

[Bill Haneman]

Gary Cramblitt wrote:

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>I did take a look at the Gnome Speech API, with the intention of designing a 
>compatible KDE API.  However, IMHO, this was not practical because of GSAPI's 
>heavy reliance on CORBA, and overly-complex interface.
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I must say that I am very disappointed to see the degree of divergence 
from gnome speech's APIs here; I think this will hurt us in the long run.

GSAPI's CORBA "dependence" is really a non-issue here; the IDL APIs for 
gnome-speech are not bound to any particular implementation, and not 
bound to CORBA.  And the GSAPI interface is simpler than what you 
propose for kttsd.

What's important is a good mapping one-to-one between client APIs, 
regardless of the implementation details.  The KTTSD proposal provides a 
very different sort of speech service, which I think is a shame.  There 
is no reason IMO why a KTTSD client API that uses DCOP can't map better 
onto what GNOME uses, or vice-versa.  And I believe that KDE will need 
to solve the same sorts of problems for its speech clients which 
gnome-speech currently solves.

So yes, I think we should revisit this immediately before putting code 
into CVS.  I will provide more detail on the areas of difference tomorrow.

best regards,

Bill

>I have already implemented much of this new API in code.  Unless there are 
>major objections, I intend to begin committing the new code to CVS in about 
>10 days (next weekend).  (In case you didn't know, KTTSD is currently in the 
>kdenonbeta module.)
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>Please comment to this mailing list or e-mail me directly.  I look forward to 
>your input.
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