Speakup in Ubuntu Feisty (revisited)

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Hi!

I want to return to the topic of Speakup integration in the next version 
of Ubuntu: Feisty Fawn.

We are nearing the end of the planning phase for Feisty and will soon 
focus on production. On Thursday we will select those specs which will 
become official targets for Ubuntu 7.04.

The Feisty Speakup spec: 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/FeistySpeakup is still not 
very complete and is therefore not likely to be targeted this time 
(unless major work is done on it in the next few days). If someone wants 
to take charge of this spec and do new and interesting things with 
Speakup in Feisty then I would encourage you to spec out plans over the 
next couple of days.

Otherwise I'm likely to focus on some less ambitious but related topics:
 * Better support for espeak -- more languages and move it into main. 
This will be useful for wider use of speakup later
 * Installer support -- We'll be adding braille support to the alternate 
installer in Feisty. What is required to also do speech synthesis? 
espeak on the CD and a modified installer that feeds espeak?

The gains already made in getting Speakup include in the main kernel 
will of course remain. It's also likely that the remaining parts of the 
previous spec: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SpeakupInclusion will be implemented.

Henrik