Speakup and ViaVoice.

[Janina Sajka]

But it doesn't need to be an either or. Why can't we have both and?

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 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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