[Kde-accessibility] kttsd status

[Bill Haneman]

Olaf Jan Schmidt wrote:

>Which API exactly to use if of course a decision of Gary, Roger and the 
>gnome-speech people (if they are interested in joining).
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>Olaf
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We'd love to be part of this discussion - however note that the 
gnome-speech maintainer, marc mulcahy, is not on this alias.  I am 
CC'ing him on this reply (and pasting the original email below)

- Bill

>Hi!
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>I just wanted to give an update on some events concerning kttsd that 
>happend off-list during that last weeks:
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>Gary volunteered to be new kttsd maintainer and has started to clear up 
>and improve the code. I have updated 
>http://accessibility.kde.org/contact/ accordingly. The change will show 
>in a few hours.
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>At FOSDEM, Gunnar and I had talks with Roger and Bill about defining a 
>common low-level API for speech device drivers. It seems possible to use 
>the BRASS drivers as a starting point, but the API would need a number of 
>small changes (and of course a good documentation).
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>Which API exactly to use if of course a decision of Gary, Roger and the 
>gnome-speech people (if they are interested in joining).
>
>Olaf
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