[Kde-accessibility] KTTS and aKode

[Gary Cramblitt]

I want to ask what others think about the following idea.

aKode is a library in kde-multimedia that can decode and playback a variety of 
audio formats.  It can output to ALSA, OSS,  Jack, or aRts.

The latest version of KTTS can output to aRts, GStreamer, or ALSA.

aKode can be added to KTTS very easily, as there is already an aKode plugin 
for juk that can be easily adapted to KTTS (juk and KTTS use the same audio 
plugin API).  Doing so would add OSS and Jack output capability to KTTS.  The 
problem is that adding aKode to KTTS would create a build dependency (in 
kde-accessibility) on kde-multimedia.

It would be possible to make the aKode plugin optional (--enable-kttsd-akode).

Opinions?  Thanks.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php