Speakup and ViaVoice.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Excellent points, Brian. There is one more point to be made - a software
synthesizer is not only demanding of memory but of CPU power. That means
if speakup relied on a software synthesizer it would not run on minimum
systems, and there is a lot of need for minimum systems to be accessible,
IMHO.
Ch;uck


On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Brian Borowski wrote:

> There's been a thread about speakup and ViaVoice and writing the code to
> make this work.  I wanted to point out a few things about this idea, that
> are going to have to be worked out.
> 
> *  ViaVoice is a software synthesizer and the kernel has to be running,
> and most of the other parts of linux have to be operational before
> anything can be done with a software synthesizer, unless it gets totally
> built into the kernel; that could make a kernel huge, and would also
> require that sound card stuff (there are very many sound cards out there),
> be loaded into the kernel as well.
> 
> *  You would miss the real-time boot-up stuff from the kernel, a very
> important feature, in my opinion, especially when trying to figure out
> what is going on when something is not working as it should be, or when
> you're trying to build a kernel and something isn't quite working write.
> You could make use of the kernel message buffer to have the software
> synthesizer speak the startup messages after the fact, but if there was a
> failure during bootup; you would never get the opportunity to hear
> anything at all, because you'd never get the speech started up.
> 
> *  Then, finally, there's another thing, the kernel is open source,
> speakup is open source, the information is available for the software
> synthesizer API, and perhaps, with some imagination, someone can figure
> out a solution for the above two points.  If someone really wants this
> badly enough, why can't they put some effort into coding for this project.
> 
> There's more than enough work with the normal speakup development to keep
> a few Kirks busy, without even worrying about ViaVoice, so I suspect, that
> this is one of those projects that someone else will have to do.  If
> there's no one else to do it; it probably won't get done for a very long
> time.
> 
> Brian Borowski
> 
> 
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